Specialist, Systems Engineer (Orbital Analyst)

Company: L3Harris Technologies
Location: Lompoc
Posted on: September 16, 2020

Job Description:

Job DescriptionL3Harris Technologies is currently seeking an Orbital Analyst to join our team. This individual will provide mission engineering analysis to support enhanced mission development concepts and mission requirements to satisfy Air Force requirements on sustainment and modernization projects for ground-based radars and electro-optical sensors. This individual will be a key participant in customer working groups to communicate system operation and capability and perform command and control capability trades. This individual will be responsible for orbit determination of space objects from sparse observations, correlation of space objects to cataloged objects, and generation of Initial Orbit Determinations (IODs) for uncatalogued space objects. Additional responsibilities will include facilitating close collaboration with the customer and key stakeholders throughout all phases of the system lifecycle for the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) mission through regular and continual communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have experience in the space surveillance and have a general understanding of the systems and algorithmic processes utilized to track space objects with ground-based radars and electro optical systems. This individual will work with the L3Harris team at Vandenberg AFB, CA. Essential Functions: * Act as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders * Support of experiments, exercises and operations * Perform Differential Corrections (DC) of satellite state vectors using observations from sensors in the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) and nontraditional data sources * Use modeling and simulation analysis to support design validation and mission benefit analysis * Prepare and brief technical presentations at informal and formal meetings * Write technical white papers, memorandums and reports * Perform research, studies and analysis in support of Enhanced Mission Development (EMD) projects * Contribute to the development of new principles and concepts to enhance mission operations * Support the resolution of technical challenges related to the MOSSAIC system portfolio * Support the development of technological concepts which improve system performance and mission capabilities * Work with engineering teams and customer to identify problems, perform failure analysis to root cause, and develop solutions to correct deficiencies * Develop, conduct and document military utility assessments of non-traditional data sensors and sources * Travel when necessary to meet with customer Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline from an accredited university and 4+ year of systems engineering experience, or equivalent * An active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required Preferred Additional Skills: * 4+ years of DoD Life-Cycle engineering delivery experience * 4+ years of direct experience with radar and/or electro-optical system architecture * 4+ years of experience with the application of orbital mechanics to Space Situational Awareness (SSA) * Experience with command and control system operation and developing CONOPS * Experience with astrodynamics and orbital mechanics tools (e.g. STK, ASW, SPADOC, ODTK, CAVENet, NYX) * Experience with orbit analysis and prediction, transfer orbits, plane changes, and orbit maneuvers * Experience with modeling and simulation of systems using astrodynamics and orbital mechanics * Experience with orbit determination, conjunction assessment, and trajectory analysis * Experience with Defense Space Control operations and concepts * Experience with radar and electro optical sensors used to detect and track space objects * Experience with geosynchronous, highly elliptical, low, and medium earth orbit mission operations and analysis * Experience with Special Perturbations (SP) and High Accuracy Catalog (HAC) analysis at the at 18th SCS/CSpOC * Experience with statistical methods including covariance analysis * Strong communication and organizational skills * Ability to work autonomously in a small team * LINUX OS script programming skills: Perl, Python * The ability to obtain and maintain program accessSDL2017

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