The Aerospace Corporation

Systems Engineer

• Identify payload-related hardware issues / risks, document mitigations, and make recommendations to government customers within a dynamic program office environment.
• Payload-related hardware includes optical telescope and vehicle protection subsystems and their respective auxiliary equipment
• Serve as a principal technical representative to the customer, and facilitate communications with the broader customer payload community
• Leading a diverse team of technical experts within Aerospace ETG to manage and mitigate all technical risks that arise throughout the entire acquisition life cycle
• Ensure effective collaboration and communication across GDO, related Aerospace program offices and Aerospace ETG staff
• Monitor and assist in development of budgets and other resource allocations to accomplish tasks within the payload group

Payload Systems Engineer

Architect

• Lead teams that provide technical expertise and capabilities to support customers in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) of space, air, and ground-based systems.
• Serve as a key point of contact for projects investigating tracking performance across various sensing architectures and operational scenarios in both nominal and contested environments.
• Build and nurture collaboration within the department and across other engineering teams to ensure mission success.
• Influence government customers by serving as integration leader for the section’s modeling and simulation capabilities.
• Translate program office needs into modeling, simulation, and analysis project plans and tasks.
• Initiate and participate in collaboration opportunities across program offices and interdisciplinary technical organizations to achieve innovative solutions and optimal efficiencies.
• Use and contribute to the development of in-house and commercial- and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools and analysis products.
• Provide day-to-day oversight for the work done in your section, provide technical guidance as needed.
• Develop and present briefings and reports for program offices and customers.
• Build and maintain a strong base of customers and collaborators for the section through effective working relationships with colleagues, government customers, and contractor teammates.
• Identify, coordinate, and assign work activities for direct reports and facilitate timely completion of these efforts.
• Effectively communicate and manage conflict and competing priorities.
• Develop staff through formal and informal performance management, evaluation, mentoring/coaching, and tasking.
• Lead full-time staff and student intern recruiting, hiring, and onboarding efforts.
• Review section work products for quality and accuracy.
• Promote sharing and exchange of knowledge and information enterprise wide.
• Keep the management team informed regarding section activities and assist in formulating and implementing department strategy and other business functions.

Tracking Architecture Performance Manager

Data Engineer

• Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture frameworks, reference architectures, design patterns, and standards.
• Define target-state data architectures that support analytics, AI/ML, digital engineering, mission applications, and enterprise reporting.
• Assess current-state data environments, identify gaps, and develop practical roadmaps for modernization.
• Design architectures for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified networks.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise and mission systems.
• Support integration across legacy systems, data platforms, software factories, analytics environments, and business applications.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with governance, security, compliance, privacy, and mission requirements.
• Advise on data platform capabilities, including data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, catalogs, pipelines, streaming platforms, knowledge graphs, and API layers.
• Architect data foundations that enable reliable AI/ML development, model training, retrieval-augmented generation, advanced analytics, and operational decision support.
• Translate technical architecture concepts into clear guidance for executives, program leaders, engineers, analysts, and data owners.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, working groups, and design sessions.
• Produce clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, roadmaps, standards, decision records, and implementation guidance.

Data Architect

Software Engineer

• Leading and orchestrating teams in Mission Engineering and MBSE efforts in support of Golden Dome
• Capturing the needs and voice of the Warfighter to integrate into studies and analyses
• Framing problems and executing studies to ensure team efforts deliver maximum value to government customers
• Influencing key government stakeholders to adopt recommendations based on data
• Working with other Aerospace, government, and contractor engineering teams who reside in different physical locations and time zones, including VA, CO, AL, and CA.
• Ensuring the performance and capabilities of systems within the portfolio are adequate to meet the Golden Dome Program Office’s needs
• Collaborating with other organizations and orchestrating efforts to ensure maximum effectiveness
• Aligning system engineering rigor with rapid development practices

Senior Mission Engineering and Integration Project Lead

Director

• Provide leadership, management as well as content integration expertise to the team supporting NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate Team for all mission-related activities
• Participate in provider forums for technical discussions where decisions are made related to mission risks, testing/training, requirements, and verifications
• Coordinate, support, and manage the team to support suited technical evaluations for mission risks and execution of NASA Concepts of Operations
• Review and inform concurrence to provider-submitted verification documentation
• Identify gaps and risks in provider implementation goals and objectives with regards to mission objectives
• Inform and track mitigations to the risks at the program level(s)
• Provide Technical Authorities (TAs) with the support/assessment to effectively develop recommendations on technical issues and identify emerging issues
• Review provider's verification events and closure notices to ensure hardware meets functional requirements and alignment with mission objectives
• Work with NPD team to deliver high quality deliverables to the NASA customer
• Conducts staff performance reviews and recommends performance improvement, career development, salary and promotion actions; establishes staffing needs and recommends reassignments, training, transfers, and other staff deployments; assists other supervisors in evaluation and assignment of staff

Human Spaceflight Enterprise Systems Director

• Independently lead modeling and analysis studies of MW/MT/MD sensing systems, broader system-of-systems architectures with focus on target tracking performance.
• Collaborate with other team-members to perform systems engineering studies to assess tradeoffs to balance system performance and optimizations.
• Design modeling/simulation and analysis strategies that leverage framework of modeling, simulation and analysis tools.
• Develop novel performance metrics and analyze the performance of sensors such as electro-optical (EO), radar and passive radio frequency sensor concepts, architectures, and algorithms.
• Develop and implement tracking algorithms, data-fusion algorithms and novel approaches to improve performance for radar, lidar, and/or related sensors and sensor architectures.
• Lead projects to improve existing modeling and simulation tools on an ongoing basis.
• Develop novel simulation approaches, computer tools and simulations to support analyses of interdisciplinary support teams.

Tracking Architecture Engineer

Operations

• Develop and execute the IT operations and user experience strategies to ensure service availability, reliability, and scalability across classified and unclassified environments
• Define and monitor operational KPIs, SLAs, and Experience Level Agreements (XLAs) to track and enhance service performance and user satisfaction
• Establish and maintain runbooks, operational playbooks, and standardized operating procedures to ensure consistent and efficient operations.
• Drive a customer-centric IT culture focused on service excellence and operational efficiency
• Oversee enterprise-wide incident management, including escalation, communication, root cause analysis, and recovery efforts
• Oversee problem management processes to identify systemic issues and eliminate recurring failures
• Manage the change management process in partnership with Application Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to balance speed and risk mitigation
• Ensure consistent adherence to ITIL-based service management practices, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to maintain high availability, reliability, and scalability of IT systems
• Leverage operational data, automation, and analytics to eliminate root causes and improve service resilience
• Manage the enterprise service desk function, ensuring fast resolution times, high-quality support, and positive user experiences
• Drive initiatives to enhance quality of service, self-service capabilities, automation, and ticket reduction
• Align service desk operations with end-user platforms (e.g., endpoint engineering, identity, and collaboration tools) for seamless user support
• Improve service turnaround times, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics across all support channels
• Partner with Stakeholder Partners to align IT operations with mission and business priorities
• Collaborate with Application Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to support deployments, upgrades, and platform changes
• Coordinate with data management teams to ensure operational readiness and support for analytics platforms, data pipelines, and mission-critical services
• Ensure operational compliance with NIST, CMMC, and corporate governance frameworks
• Participate in OCIO governance forums, contributing to strategy, alignment, and operational planning
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, ensuring regulatory and corporate compliance for classified and unclassified environments.
• Maintain documentation, controls, and evidence to support audits and meet internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of IT operations, service desk, vendor management professionals across multiple locations
• Foster a culture of accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement within the team
• Develop training, certification, and career development plans to build a high-performing workforce
• Oversee vendor and managed service provider relationships, ensuring cost-effectiveness, performance, and value delivery
• Manage budgets, resource allocation, and co-sourcing arrangements to optimize operational efficiency
• Support organizational growth and productivity improvements by continuously evaluating and enhancing IT infrastructure and operations
• Drive innovation through data-driven insights, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Deliver measurable value through operational excellence, cost optimization, and exceptional user experiences

Principal Director, Service Operations

Engineer

• Assist the Aerospace ground segment leader in engaging Government leaders, SETA contractors, development contractors, and Missile Warning/Tracking community partners to align MEO ground development and CONOPS with operational needs
• Work directly with Epoch 1 and Epoch 2 space vehicle contractors to ensure their ground segment deliverables meet technical requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and operational performance standards
• Provide ground segment systems engineering support for requirements and ICD development and verification
• Support ground segment communications architecture development, including data links, network design, and interface definitions between space vehicles, ground stations, and enterprise systems
• Identify, initiate, and develop multidisciplinary support from appropriate technical resources
• Evaluate contractor performance against cost, schedule, and technical metrics, and assess risk and trade-space analyses to enable timely delivery of capabilities while meeting mission objectives
• Support execution of the program’s Digital Engineering strategy and integrate MBSE models with mission level modeling and simulation
• Exemplify Aerospace corporate values of objectivity and integrity while serving as a trusted agent to our government customers

Senior MEO Missile Warning, Tracking & Defense Ground Segment Project Engineer

Program Manager

• Lead, plan, and oversee broad-based programmatic and engineering activities across multidisciplinary teams
• Advise senior government decision makers regarding acquisition strategy
• Acts as primary customer contact for program activities, leading discussions with customer management staff and technical teams on cost, schedule and technical performance to support ground and space-based services development.
• Provide technical leadership between customers' and cross-functional Aerospace technical management staff
• Coordinates and contributes to contract negotiations and changes, proposals, acquisition plans, proposal work statements and specifications, independent cost estimates and cost/benefit analysis.
• Defines and coordinate program roadmaps and integrate master schedules, identifies and resolves program problems related to resource allocation or contractual changes.
• Lead analyses & architecture/systems trade studies for future NOAA ground and space operations concepts
• Recommend cost effective solutions for future Enterprise architectures and acquisition approaches
• Plan and coordinate the Design, Integration & Test of space and ground-based solutions and the associated transition to operations
• Coordinate NOAA system migration activities and ensure partner mission integration at reasonable cost and to mitigate the risk of system obsolescence
• Advise on strategic technology directions to improve the system capabilities, product quality and reduce operational costs.
• Acts as senior mentor to team members, providing technical and programmatic guidance

Senior Ground Systems Program Manager

Solutions Engineer

• Design and implement data pipelines and integration services connecting ASOT platforms to modernized M&S software, enabling centralized data consumption across multiple mission programs while ensuring data quality, validation, and traceability
• Develop deep understanding of Aerospace customer mission operations and requirements to effectively translate mission needs into technical data specifications and integration solutions
• Provide hands-on technical support for M&S software tools across multiple customer programs, including configuration, customization, troubleshooting, simulation execution support, and results validation
• Build and maintain data transformation logic and adapters to convert enterprise data formats into simulation-ready representations while preserving semantic meaning of mission datasets (e.g. orbital parameters, spacecraft configurations, sensor characteristics, environmental models)
• Support migration of embedded legacy data to modern Data Management platforms, ensuring data integrity and establishing patterns for reusable, centralized data management versus software-embedded datasets
• Serve as technical liaison between data management teams, M&S software developers, mission analysts, and stakeholders across diverse programs with varying requirements and classification levels
• Develop scripts, utilities, and automation tools to streamline data preparation, ingestion, post-processing workflows, and optimize data schemas and access patterns for M&S workloads
• Collaborate with multiple customer programs simultaneously, adapting integration approaches to meet varying operational timelines and priorities while participating in technical reviews and program meetings

Mission Data Integration Engineer

Analyst

• Independently and collaboratively conducting deep dives, trade studies, and assessments to define and address customer needs in the areas of space architecture design and optimization, trade space exploration, and portfolio analysis
• Leveraging in-house and commercial- and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools to deliver technical insights through analytical deep dives, trade studies, and assessments in department focus areas
• Contributing to the development of analysis software tools and actively pursuing opportunities to enhance and improve existing simulation and analysis capabilities for a wide range of customers
• Developing and presenting timely and technically accurate presentations and reports that clearly communicate analysis results and provide recommended solutions to technical leads, management, and customers
• Building and maintaining a strong base of customers and collaborators for the department through effective working relationships with cross-organization partners, government customers, and contractor teammates

Space Optimization Analyst

• Support analysis in one or more of these specific mission areas: geo-spatial intelligence, signals intelligence, space surveillance, navigation systems, and/or space protection supporting defense or intelligence capabilities.
• Provide analysis to support recommendations for research, development, and acquisition decisions of legacy and emerging customer space-based sensing architectures.
• Perform architecture evaluation modeling overall performance using in-house or custom-developed analysis tools.
• Work closely with senior staff, management, and a team to translate customer needs into project objectives and provide quality controlled and assured deliverables to customer organizations
• Develop and present timely and technically accurate presentations and reports that clearly communicate analysis results and provide recommended solutions to technical leads, management, and customers.
• Grow awareness of analysis outcomes to provide initial assessments when needed and defend unanticipated results to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in sustainment, development, and growth of the organization’s analysis and simulation capabilities to support increasing functional areas for our diverse customer base.

Sensing Architecture Performance Engineer

Data Scientist

• Developing and executing machine learning and data science experiments, in the domains of natural language processing, computer vision, time series analysis, reinforcement learning, etc.
• Evaluating technologies and data science models for use in scalable and resilient mission-critical applications
• Collaborating with teams of various sizes to deliver features and products
• Presenting written and verbal results to customer stakeholders.
• Reinforcing an environment of learning and progress with team members and others

• Design and develop full solutions architecture for the LVC effort including : the distributed simulation implementing common standards with time and federation management services ; User Interface ; Data Management ; and AI platform components
• Create simulation models optimized for federated environments with distributed time management, synchronization, and entity transfer protocols
• Integrate heterogeneous simulation systems across multiple sites, developing FOMs, SOMs, and gateways between different protocols
• Ensure Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) interoperability with cross-domain solutions for classified/unclassified integration
• Design and optimize network communication protocols with multicast, publish-subscribe messaging, QoS strategies, and latency compensation
• Implement distributed state management, replication, conflict resolution, and entity ownership protocols across federation nodes
• Optimize federation performance with interest management, load balancing, and distributed workload optimization strategies
• Design fault detection, recovery, graceful degradation, health monitoring, and failover capabilities for distributed simulations
• Develop test harnesses, validation frameworks, and conduct integration, scalability, and interoperability testing across sites
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting systems, and provide operational support for live distributed simulation exercises
• Ensure compliance with standards ( e.g. IEEE 1516 (HLA) / IEEE 1278 (DIS) ) specifications with comprehensive documentation
• Collaborate with simulation developers, data engineers, external organizations, and provide training on distributed simulation best practices
• Maintain effective working relationships with Government leadership, contractors, supporting contractors, and engineering matrix reach back personnel
• Develop and effectively communicate technical recommendations and solutions to Aerospace and Government leadership
• Work with subject matter experts in physics and engineering to understand and incorporate models and algorithms into distributed software simulations

Modeling and Simulation Solution Architect

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Implements corporate standard processes, tools, and cadence within cognizant organization, optimizing compliance and efficiency.
• Develops and maintains cost and schedule baselines and forecasts that meet program and company requirements and are integrated with the program Statement of Work (SOW) as included in the Aerospace Requirements Tool (ART), and other program planning documents
• Provides leadership in the development of policies and procedures; develops Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tied to Enterprise professional technical staff (PTS) and financial goals
• Develops and manages delivery (PTS) and financial plans and forecasts for direct and indirect funded activities at the organizational level; tracks and performs analyses for various budgets; maintain organizational statistics
• Compares and analyzes PTS and financial results with plans and forecasts, identifies trends; assess and communicates reliable metrics that management can use to make informed business decisions; uses data driven insights to recommend corrective actions to achieve PTS and financial plans
• Informs Group CFO and Program Finance Manager on financial trends, reporting unit performance and recommends corrective actions to achieve financial plans