Role OverviewCastalia Systems is seeking a Mid-Level Technical Professional (SETA) to provide systems engineering and analytical support to help inform national security space decisions. The successful candidate will integrate all-source intelligence with engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation to evaluate foreign space and counterspace capabilities and assess their implications for U.S. and allied space and ground architectures.
What You Will Do
Support threat-informed mission engineering activities, develop and execute modeling and simulation cases, translate intelligence into technical requirements, and produce clear, technically grounded assessments and briefings.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The position requires close coordination with partners across the Intelligence Community (IC), DoD, and mission stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor, traceability, and alignment with threat-informed requirements and CONOPS.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related technical field from an accredited institution
- 5–10 years’ experience in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering, including exposure to space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments within the IC/DoD environment
- Modeling & Simulation: Demonstrated experience using space mission M&S tools (e.g., STK, AFSIM, or equivalent) to support analytic or engineering tasks
- Architecture Knowledge: Working understanding of space and ground architectures, including interactions among mission, ground, and user segments
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k matching
- Generous PTO
- Paid holidays
- Professional training opportunities
- Pet insurance
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