Systems Engineer, Lead (Systems Engineer, Staff)

Where dreams and reality collide and the output is, out of this world. At Redwire Space, we are a team of dreamers and doers. Where the impossible becomes possible, and every day is an opportunity to learn and get one step closer to knowing the unknown. Join us on our mission to expand humanity's presence in space.

Redwire is accelerating humanity's expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Redwire Space Missions LLC has an opportunity for a Systems Engineer, Lead located at our facility in Albuquerque, NM to support new business pursuits as well as the development of high-quality solutions for small satellite programs. In this role you will support all phases of the space systems development process including requirements definition, system interfaces, system design and analysis, integration and test, verification and validation as required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical leader to the business to develop mission concepts and spacecraft development.
• Develop models and simulations in support of digital engineering capability demonstrations, space product concept development, proposals, and system design and evaluation.
• Provide thought leadership within Redwire, with our partners, and across industry
• Translate high-level customer objectives, business cases, architectures, and spacecraft development strategies into system requirement specifications and work across engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
• Efficiently develop cost and schedule competitive technical solutions - drawing on internal and partner expertise.
• Perform various analyses to optimize system and / or subsystem architecture.
• Serve as customer interface and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of design concepts.
• Mentor, coach, train, guide, direct and advise junior staff.
• Recognize and mitigate technical issues and risks while operating within budget and on schedule.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse community of engineers and managers to achieve the goals of the program team.

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