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Space Ground Segment Lead
Posted: 06/26/2025
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 30632
Job Location:
Industry: AERO - Aerospace
Job Description
Position Title: Space Ground Segment Lead
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire opportunity located in Berkeley, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
- Mission Operations and Ground Systems Engineering
- Supervises and maintains the Ground Station facility (hardware and software).
- Ultimately responsible for maintaining both the hardware and software that connects the Mission Operations Center to third-party ground station networks around the world.
- Advanced Software Programming
- Performs the most complex and advanced software programming in the Mission Operations System
- Develops unique custom code, or code that integrates existing software tools with commercial or government-furnished tools.
- Oversees two-way encryption with space assets.
- Systems Design and Development
- Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates software and supporting hardware for functional areas that are highly complex and have a broad, mission-wide impact.
- Helps maintain and evolve the multi-mission Mission Operations Center, as well as the Backup Mission Operations Center
- Program and Partner Support
- Supports the flight mission's Program Manager, Systems Engineer, and Mission Operations leads at meetings with NASA and subcontractors as the lead presenter.
- Travels for troubleshooting of hardware and software systems as required.
- NASA and Mission Collaboration
- Supports all NASA reviews and ongoing meetings with spacecraft partners (across all missions) as the subject matter expert on Mission Operations System ground systems.
- Leads multiple lower-level professional engineers, technicians, and students.
- Technical Oversight and Compliance
- Works with spacecraft management to meet technical requirements within schedule and budget.
- Revises the design and verification as needed.
- Provides all design and verification data to NASA for integration with the spacecraft.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
- Expert-level (system architect) knowledge (full stack) of software/applications programming relevant to all parts of a satellite ground systems network. This includes experience with space asset encryption and anomaly resolution.
- Experience working with IT people and assets (hardware and software) that interface with space ground systems, network, and Mission Operations Center (e.g., dockers, virtual machines, use of cloud vs. on-prem, failover scenarios, etc.)
- Experience working with Ground Station providers, as this position will require engaging with such providers around the world (both commercial and government) to develop the hardware or software capabilities needed to
- interface with these other provider networks.
- Skills in supervising staff and establishing work objectives.
Job Details
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Location: Berkeley, CA.
- Salary Range: $170 – 200k/year
- Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card Holder
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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