Senior GOES Product Engineer

ASRC Federal Data Network Corporation (DNC) brings a 20-year history of delivering high-performance space systems engineering, integration and satellite operations services to civil and defense agencies. We provide these services throughout all phases of the program life cycle and across the entire space systems architecture, including space and ground assets.

We are seeking a Senior GOES-R Product Engineer to join DNC on the Engineering and Mission Operations Support Services VI (EMOSS-VI) contract for work at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, MD. Our client is responsible for engineering and mission operations support for all environment monitoring satellites managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) Mission Operations Division (MOD). Additional support is required for the previous generation of weather satellites, the GOES-N series.

Role/Responsibilities:

This Senior GOES Product Engineer position will work along with the EMOSS-VI team and OSPO-MOD Engineering counterparts to support the NOAA operators and ground systems continuously processing Earth and Space weather data from the LEO and GEO constellations and their various instrumentation. This position will support the receipt of instrument science data and the processing into various higher-level products with appropriate calibration along with distribution to various customers including the National Weather Service.

The position requires capacity to learn overall satellite systems engineering skills with emphasis applied in the areas of ground segment data engineering to collect space, climatic, atmospheric, terrestrial, solar geophysical, oceanographic and other environmental data from the space segment and transmit the data on a 24-hour continual operation basis. Candidate must possess excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

Specific tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Support and coordinate all data capture and distribution related engineering activities.

• Support ground segment coordination of resources involving the data operations

• Verification of nominal daily operation and performance.

• Conduct operations regression or parallel testing and report results.

• Coordinate and participate in ground software release regression and parallel testing to include monthly IT security patches.

• Monitor ground system performance and respond to ground system anomalies during on and off duty hours.

• Review and control proposed changes to the operational baseline using configuration management practices.

• Develop, document and maintain operational procedures for the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC).

• Analyze short term and long term trending to detect potential problems.

• Propose new or execute improvements to processes and tools that will increase long term reliability, monitoring, and anomaly detection capability.

• Assist in the integration, testing and implementation into operations of new or upgraded ground systems.

• Develop and maintain processes that enable coordination among satellite operations personnel for fulfillment of the NOAA mission.

• Preparation of regular reports and liaison with internal and external personnel.

Other Duties

Perform ground system disciplines as directed by the technical lead and management in support of maintaining L1b image quality. This position will support projects or engineering tasks related to the monitoring of instrument radiometric calibration and related to the investigation of anomalies in instrument performance and in the ground calibration software/algorithms. Perform near real time troubleshooting and analysis during radiometric anomalies, including the identification of the source of the anomaly as being with the instrument or in the ground L1b software, and providing advice on the resolution. Preparation of reports, and liaison with internal and external radiometric stakeholders.

The position requires knowledge of the basic statistics associated with radiation detection and data calibration. Candidate will learn, use, and help maintain sophisticated tools that have been specifically created to efficiently monitor the 16-channel imagery and the calibration data/parameters from the 7856 detectors within each GOES-R/ABI imager instrument. The candidate will participate in the operational validation of the tools and their interface with the ground segment. The position prepares and delivers presentations to colleagues and government representatives based on the results from these tools.

Position will co-develop and execute a methodology for identifying, classifying and implementing a set of best practices that can increase the quality of the data and product related ground segment data engineering and mission operations support services provided to OSPO. Position will enable delivery of best value to OSPO to positively impact team performance and mission execution and include lessons learned to avoid or mitigate risk, as well as non-value-added processes. Position will provide a historical overview of problems to assist in decision-making relative to operations effectiveness, process, or procedural changes over time.

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law .

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related disciplines and at least 7 years of experience.

• Experience using multiple operating systems, including Unix, Windows, and RedHat Linux.

• Shell scripting and aliasing.

• Highly Desired:

• Preferably with experience in software development and validation. Internship, course work/projects in space dynamics, satellite remote sensing are a big plus and can be considered as experience but will be evaluated on the case by case basis.

• Experience using Google tool suite and utilities

• Programming in languages such as C++, Visual basic, PERL, JAVA

• Knowledge of industry programming languages, including PERL, Python and JAVA.

• Advanced use of Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Access.

• Ability to create and conduct informative and high-quality presentations on complex operational subjects.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

Work in hybrid combination of typical onsite office building and remotely during a standard 40-hour week. Twenty-four hour on-call for satellite and ground system emergencies. Occasional deadlines or operational conditions require non-standard/longer hours or additional onsite support. Infrequent travel required.

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.