Orbital Analyst - Colorado Springs, CO, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Category:
Engineering

Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

Travel Required:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Assistance:
Relocation assistance may be available

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come.

Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.

Supports on-orbit RPO operations through planning, execution and debrief phases

• Provides Space Operations expertise to ensure spacecraft/payload and ground system health, status, anomaly troubleshooting, and resolution
• Executes Kalman Filter monitoring/analysis and manipulation
• Development and improvement of operations procedures or processes
• Development and improvement of operational scripts, including unit testing and system testing
• Supporting the coordination and execution of system maintenance tasks and coordinating across multiple contractor organizations including customer and external system partners to diligently accomplish all tasks
• Performing quantitative risk analysis
• Performs Space Domain Awareness (SDA) planning and analysis
• Providing 24x7on-call support rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) missions and the resolution of system issues and anomalies.

This position can be filled as a Principal (level 3) or Sr Principal (level 4) depending on experience and qualifications.

*This position will require shift work including swing or night shift, and/or 12-hr shifts
Bachelor's degree in Physics or Engineering or related STEM field
Minimum of 5 years of experience (level 3) or minimum of 9 years' experience (level 4) in a related engineering field such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace and/or operations
Active or current DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance
Knowledge and experience in satellite operations engineering disciplines to include attitude control, power management, thermal control, propulsion, command and data handling, flight and ground software, and anomaly determination and resolution
Ability to conduct a range of modeling, simulation and analysis in orbital maneuvers, orbit estimation
Expertise in the following technical disciplines: orbital propagation and perturbations, orbit estimation, orbital maneuvers, modeling and simulation and analysis
Familiar with a variety of astrodynamics tools (FreeFlyer, System Tool Kit (STK), NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT), Orbit Determination Toolbox (ODTBX))
Experience with developing and presenting briefing slides to senior leaders and executive level personnel
Ability to work odd and/or extended hours covering a 24/7 period and periodic rotating shifts
Ability and willingness to work shifts
Ability to develop and maintain operational procedures, products, and training materials
Previous experience with troubleshooting, anomaly resolution and performing analysis on operational systems
Proficiency with one or more of the following programming languages/tools: MATLAB, Python, SIMULINK, Fortran, Java, C/ C++
Experience with optimization techniques and their application to trajectory optimization and/or multi-objective optimization
Prior aerospace-related work experience for a U.S Government Agency or Contractor
Background/fundamental understand of performing statistical analysis

In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.