Work alongside software development leadership (Product Owners, Product Manager, Development Lead) to ensure priorities are properly understood, adhered to, and implemented by software developers. Assist the GSE Lead in leading the system engineering team in the design of new mission capabilities and features. Assist in requirement verification and traceability practices. Assist in synchronization of design for ground functionality in integration and test verification. Support the program's quarterly design milestone events in collaboration with the program Ground Architect. These milestone meetings drive design efforts for the following quarterly development cycle. Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5 years of relevant experience; Master's degree in STEM with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD in STEM with no experience. Top Secret / SCI clearance required at the time of application, and the ability to program clearance Proven experience in Systems Engineering leadership for ground systems Mission planning and/or ground operations experience Space domain (i.e. orbit regimes), orbital/flight dynamics, and/or mission data processing experience Ability to communicate and drive solutions in ambiguous agile environment Ability to travel 10% of the time Must have U.S. Citizenship with active or current TS/SCI Clearance at time of application Organizational abilities proven by experience providing customer deliverables and managing contractual deadlines Comfortable and confident presenting information from Microsoft PowerPoint to medium to large audiences (30+ people) Experience leading teams composing requirements and providing verification and validation traceability Competency of Agile process and tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket (Atlassian tools) Experience leading milestone Systems Engineering reviews such as Preliminary or Critical Design Reviews Experience engaging with and leading geographically dispersed team