Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking Systems Engineers to make the world-s most advanced Space Payloads & Avionics even smarter. As a Systems Engineer for our client's Space group, you will be part of a large engineering team that builds payloads that go on satellites. You will be supporting a number of flight programs in various stages. This role is 100% onsite at our client's facility in Scottsdale, AZ.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with customers, mission partners, and other key stakeholders to translate requirements into robust system designs within a fast-moving timeline.
• Decomposition of end-to-end system requirements into architecture, design, interfaces, and test cases
• Coordination with developers and integration and test teams to ensure component development meet system mission needs.
• Build HW/SW/Firmware that go on space-based systems Required Skills
• Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
• Must be willing to obtain a DoD Secret clearance
• Requires a Bachelor's degree in STEM field and 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
• Clear understanding of requirements management and system modeling tools
• Space experience is required whether it be component level or devices that are able to sustain space environments
• including thermal effects, etc.
• Experience with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)/SySML/MagicDraw/Cameo
• Working knowledge of MATLAB for DSP using related toolboxes
• Experience with digital signal processing algorithm development for the statistical analysis of signal parameter measurements utilizing techniques from Detection & Estimation Theory
• Random Processes Analysis, and Communications and Information Theory.
• Background with Radar Processing
• DSP for mitigating/processing RF effects
• Python scripting
• Monte Carlo analysis or Phased Array/Beam Forming is a plus.
• Experience in Space Payloads Design, Development or I&T is a plus