Mission Systems Engineer

The Mission Systems Engineer (MSE) is the single point of technical accountability for systems engineering on an assigned government contract or task order.

The MSE owns that mission's requirements baseline, interface control, verification and validation planning, and requirements compliance closure — reporting to the Program Manager and/or the Chief Systems Engineer (CSE), as assigned.

The MSE operates within the enterprise system architecture and electrical ICD framework owned by the CSE, and is the CSE's forward-deployed counterpart on the contract: translating fleet-level architecture and standards into mission-specific requirements, schedules, and customer commitments.

The Mission Systems Engineer (MSE) is the single point of technical accountability for systems engineering on an assigned government contract or task order.

The MSE owns that mission's requirements baseline, interface control, verification and validation planning, and requirements compliance closure — reporting to the Program Manager and/or the Chief Systems Engineer (CSE), as assigned.

The MSE operates within the enterprise system architecture and electrical ICD framework owned by the CSE, and is the CSE's forward-deployed counterpart on the contract: translating fleet-level architecture and standards into mission-specific requirements, schedules, and customer commitments.

Mission requirements ownership — decomposing customer/contract requirements, allocating them to subsystem and payload budgets, and maintaining the requirements compliance matrix for the assigned mission.

Interface control — developing and baselining mission-specific ICDs consistent with the enterprise electrical and system ICD framework; coordinating interface changes with subsystem owners and the CSE organization.

Verification & Validation — building and executing the mission V&V plan, defining and tracking Technical Performance Measures (TPMs), planning environmental test campaigns (TVAC, vibration/acoustic, EMI/EMC), and dispositioning test data and anomalies for the assigned mission.

Integration & Test support — supporting AI&T campaign planning and execution for the mission, including FlatSat/Hardware in-the Loop activities, test readiness reviews, and anomaly investigation for mission-specific hardware and interfaces.

Program and customer interface — serving as the technical point of contact to the government customer and Program Manager for the assigned contract; preparing for and presenting at contract technical reviews and milestones (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and closing associated action items.