# Mission Operations Engineer (Mid Level) - Millennium Space Systems

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Location**: El Segundo, CA, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Level 3: $99,000 - 177,000
Level 4: $121,000 - $215,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Mission Operations Engineer, you will be the lead technical authority for Millennium's on-orbit spacecraft. Your work will encompass the entire spacecraft mission life cycle, from proposal phase to launch and on-orbit operations.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team of spacecraft and subsystem engineers during launch and early orbit activities

- Perform duties of lead technical authority during mission operations for both space and ground segments

- Support every aspect of the mission lifecycle, from proposal to decommissioning

- Define ground and mission operations requirements

- Develop and implement methods of operational automation

- Create and execute space vehicle simulator tests and in-factory flight vehicle tests

- Conduct critical ground segment testing

- Lead anomaly response team when off-nominal vehicle conditions arise

- Contribute to customer briefings and debriefings

- Design and validate the mission 'sequence of events'

Requirements:

- B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Software, Computer, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Mission Operations or similar

- Experience with real-time satellite command and control

- Willingness to support occasional off-nominal working hours

- Willingness to apply for a TS clearance with SCI eligibility

Preferred Qualifications:

- M.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Software, Computer, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Mission Operations or similar

- Experience in leading multidisciplinary technical teams

- Deep knowledge of satellite systems engineering

- Experience with Spacecraft Command & Control software systems

- Familiarity with software and scripting tools such as MATLAB, Python, C/C++, Java

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs

- Paid and unpaid time away from work

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Satellite Command and Control
- Real-time Systems

### Nice to have
- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
- Leadership
- Satellite Systems Engineering
- Spacecraft Command & Control software systems
- MATLAB
- Python
- C/C++
- Java

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