Redwire Space Missions is looking to revolutionize spaceflight through continuous innovation and operational excellence, and needs a Manager of Systems Engineering, Requirements, Verification, and Validation (RV&V) to lead and grow the functional organization responsible for defining, verifying, and validating spacecraft system performance and functionality across the full lifecycle.
Requirements
- Experience with requirements and verification management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or equivalent.
- Experience with MBSE tools such as Cameo, Rhapsody, or equivalent.
- Experience supporting program(s) in a lead technical role across multiple lifecycle phases (e.g., CONOPS, detailed design, integration & test, verification, validation, operations, etc.).
- Experience establishing a requirements baseline, governing changes, and assessing impacts.
- Experience with agile task execution tools, such as Jira or Confluence.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. DoD security clearance.
- Eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Systems Engineering RV&V functional organization, responsible for requirements management, verification and validation strategy, planning and execution across Space Missions programs.
- Establish and maintain functional processes, tools, and standards for requirements development, traceability, verification, validation, and configuration control.
- Contribute to the long-term strategy and implementation of digital engineering practices and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methods.
- Provide direct technical leadership to programs ensuring traceable, testable, and validated requirements.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering, Avionics, Integration & Test, and other functional teams to ensure requirements traceability and verification alignment from unit-level through system-level qualification and acceptance.
- Support formal reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and Mission Readiness Reviews with clear verification status and technical rationale.
- Drive continuous improvement in SE tools, methodologies, and metrics to enhance efficiency and quality of engineering execution.
Other
- Lead hiring efforts, performance management, and mentorship for Systems Engineering RV&V staff.
- Support the implementation of Systems Engineering process and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Participate in proposal development, customer engagements, and planning activities, representing Systems Engineering.
- Mentor and develop systems engineers in best practices, promoting technical excellence, rigor, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Experience leading and mentoring other engineers.
