Space Systems Integration (SSI) is a fast-growing engineering company that provides aerospace solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers. Our employees are forward-thinking, self-directed individuals who are committed to solving our customers’ technical challenges.
SSI is seeking a Systems Engineer for a role in Colorado Springs, CO.
In this role, you will embed full-time with the Government’s ground enterprise development team, helping shape and deliver the next generation of SDA TCPED (Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination) capabilities.
You will serve as a technical integrator and strategic advocate for space-based sensor integration, working directly with the customer responsible for Mission Management, Command and Control (M2C2), and sensor orchestration suite on the front end, as well as the data fusion and exploitation environment on the back end. You will join and actively participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and staff meetings to ensure space-based S&R capabilities are represented in rapidly evolving ground architecture.
Role and Responsibilities:
· Advocate for space-based S&R capabilities within the evolving ground TCPED enterprise, ensuring space sensor data is effectively tasked, collected, processed, exploited, and disseminated alongside ground-based sensors.
· Serve as the primary systems integration liaison for advanced space-based and ground-based SDA platforms, with a focus on seamless mission thread integration.
· Embed with the development team and participate in program IPTs and staff meetings to influence architecture, design, and implementation decisions for the M2C2 mission management system and sensor orchestration suite.
· Provide technical oversight of system development efforts (design, development, manufacturing, integration/test, production, sustainment) across both traditional and agile/prototype acquisition approaches.
· Define and evolve operational concepts (CONOPS), requirements, system interfaces, and verification approaches that enable space-ground data fusion and sensor orchestration.
· Guide end-to-end mission thread integration, from space sensor tasking through ground TCPED to actionable information for defensive and offensive space control.
· Participate in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and test planning to ensure integrated capabilities meet warfighter space superiority objectives.
· Lead risk management activities—identifying, analyzing, and mitigating technical and programmatic risks associated with SDA sensor integration.
· Coordinate across USSF, SSC, SpOC, NSDC, and USSPACECOM government agencies, commercial partners, and allied nations to establish cross-domain sensor tasking and data-sharing architectures.