Mission Manager, International Systems (Starshield)
Washington, DC · Hawthorne · USD 165,000-240,000 · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 21, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- Washington, DC · Hawthorne
- Salary
- USD 165,000-240,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As a member of the Mission Management team, you will serve as a core point of contact for customers from early education about Starshield communications to supervision of in-depth and scaled deployments of Starshield User Products.
- You’ll support new business proposals from initial requirements verification through successful integrations of hardware, software, and networks.
- Specifically, you will focus on the execution of foreign government and military solutions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop integration plans, assist in architectural overviews, and ensure customer success when building out communications and data systems.
- Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and per customer expectations, distill customer requirements into actionable development objectives.
- Work with all internal and external stakeholders to drive prototype development.
- Collaborate with subsystem representatives across team boundaries to consider all necessary trades and ensure end-to-end mission success.
- Support all phases of the program from pre-sales consultations, integrations, testing, troubleshooting and steady state operations.
- Educate the customer on our designs and methodologies.
- Project manage network centric features for Starshield customers.
- Interface with network and software engineering teams to develop turnkey solutions for customers using existing products, or spur new product development to fill gaps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of experience working in the aerospace or defense industry.
- 5+ years of technical project management and/or systems engineering experience.
- Experience working with satellite communications networks and IP networks.
- Must pass DoD level background checks for entry into various government facilities.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
- Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance, or the ability to obtain one
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver reliable and expeditious results across multiple parallel priorities.
- Highly detail oriented, hardworking, and professional with excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
- Proficiency in network engineering (LAN/WAN, routing, IP transit)
- Data science proficiency (SQL or equivalent)
- Strong penchant for innovation in process improvement and system design.
- Positive, “can-do” attitude, self-starter, and ability to work in a high pace dynamic environment.
- Strong analytical, verbal, and written skills.
- Experience working with foreign governments.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
Skills
- IP Networks
- Satellite Communications
- Network Engineering
- LAN/WAN
- Routing
- IP Transit
- SQL
- Systems Engineering
- Technical Project Management
