Mission systems engineer vs senior staff systems engineer

Differences between mission systems engineer and senior staff systems engineer duties and responsibilities

Mission systems engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage network access controls, providing limit SYBASE and LDAP system support for multiple databases.
• Manage security, which includes monitoring and controlling database access, assigning permissions to application owners.
• Engage in refurbishing and replacing critical mechanical grind support equipment (GSE) for NASA's return to flight effort.
• Maintain software for ephemeris load generation for NOAA satellites.
• Instruct new hires on grind system components, data flow, and GSE responsibilities.
• Direct installation of satellite command and control equipment at NASA command station sites and train station personnel.
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Senior staff systems engineer example responsibilities.

• Develop and integrate software that drives flight control system hardware and achieves product requirements for an international avionics customer base.
• Used Chicago, GPO, and DoD style manuals.
• Design electrical heater control with improve immunity to RF.
• Organize and perform the RF spectrum interference analysis with mitigation solutions.
• Author EMC white papers on symmetrix-base solutions and implementation best practices, to directly support sales/service delivery.
• Perform communications interference analyses involving various customer spacecraft and NASA assets, including characterization of communications degradation due to co-channel interferers.
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