The Aerospace Corporation

Engineer

• Support customers at the cutting edge of space programs, enabling faster execution and smarter, risk-informed decisions by adapting mission assurance approaches
• Assist in shaping the future of mission assurance by helping define the path forward and informing corporate-level investment decisions
• Coordinate diverse subject matter experts to provide thought leadership and develop innovative mission assurance approaches
• Support connecting insights across programs by capturing key themes, lessons, and best practices and applying them to drive mission success enterprise-wide

Space Systems Mission Assurance Strategist – Project Engineer

Director

• Develop the vision and direction for the department to execute and enhance corporate capabilities that responsively inform our customers’ space and ground acquisitions and architectures
• Drive new technology adoption (e.g., generative and agentic AI) and adapt these to enhance systems engineering workflows
• Identify new partnerships for growth in customer impact
• Ensure Vehicle and Ground Concepts Department and related corporate activities fully leverage expertise from across Aerospace, incorporating best practices in enterprise systems engineering
• Manage the department, including staff performance reviews, resource allocation, and personnel management, and recommend performance improvements, career development, personnel actions, and awards
• Serve as the primary contact for program office inquiries, frame problems, develop implementation plans, and identify appropriate personnel based on expertise
• Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, maintain robust relationships with peer organizations, and lead multi-discipline design teams
• Coordinate and manage complex technical tasks among customers, ensuring quality and accuracy of work products
• Recruit, onboard, and develop staff through performance management, mentoring, and coaching
• Collaborate with subdivision leadership to cultivate an effective national organization
• Lead technical activities, organize project teams, and execute a variety of conceptual design, evaluation, and analysis activities.

Vehicle and Ground Concepts Director

Solutions Engineer

• Provide the government with system integration (space-ground) expertise for the SN OPIR Programs
• Participate in program status assessments and independent risk assessments that inform government and Aerospace management of perceived technical problems and recommend courses of action
• Contribute to the government’s oversight of and insight for contractor system integration strategies and detailed planning for their system functional and performance testing for the ground, space, and combined ground-space capabilities
• Represent Aerospace in program meetings and technical forums such as design reviews, technical interchanges, and program management reviews
• Prepare briefings and reports to provide status and recommendations to the government and Aerospace management on the technical assessments and analyses performed by Aerospace to support the integration process
• Interact regularly with government teams, development contractors, and other collaborators across the Missile Warning/Tracking/Defense Enterprise
• Develop with the government a mission integration plan and roadmap for the multi-segment delivery of missile warning capabilities and performance to transition to operations

Senior System of Systems Integration Engineer – Missile Warning, Tracking, Defense

Security Engineer

• Engage with stakeholders to ensure that security objectives, protection needs and concerns, assurance needs, security requirements (including measures of effectiveness [MOEs] and measures of performance [MOPs], and associated validation methods are defined and documented.
• Define system security requirements and develop comprehensive verification methods.
• Capture critical system security information in functions such as NASA Engineering Insight or equivalent processes.
• Support NASA RMF Cybersecurity Process.
• Develop security views and viewpoints of the overall system’s architecture and design, ensuring alignment with broader aerospace or defense strategies.
• Identify and assess susceptibilities and vulnerabilities across the system lifecycle in the face of inherent hazards and adversaries.
• Design and plan preemptive and reactive security features and functions to manage asset loss and mitigate potential loss consequences.
• Perform system security analyses and interpret results from complementary analyses to support engineering tradeoffs and risk management decisions.
• Quantify and evaluate the cost implications, benefits, and risks associated with alternative security features and functions.
• Inform decision-making through evidence-based reasoning that demonstrates security and trustworthiness claims are met to the desired assurance level.
• Act as a cybersecurity resource during software, hardware, and broader engineering discussions, leveraging specialized expertise to address all feasible solutions.

Cyber Security Architect

• Evaluate the design, analysis, and test methodologies related to aerospace thermostructural technologies, such as liquid rocket engines, solid rocket motors, launch and re-entry vehicle heat shields, and/or hypersonic systems; sub-components typically include composites, solid propellant, joints, seals, igniters, valves, turbopumps, and nozzles
• Offer technical consultation to management, customers, contractors, and government organizations in formulating and assessing test plans, procedures, objectives, and success criteria
• Develop and assess design and analysis criteria, requirements, and specifications for aerospace thermostructural technologies
• Contribute to the development and execution of test programs for development, qualification, and acceptance of aerospace thermostructural technologies
• Improve agility of the mission assurance process in assessing the structural integrity and survivability of aerospace thermostructural technologies
• Maintain state-of-the-art skills in activities related to design, evaluation, and testing of aerospace thermostructural technologies; skills include expertise in structural mechanics analysis techniques, failure criteria, composite design criteria, fracture and fatigue, damage tolerance, concept ideation and development, and advanced finite element analysis methods
• Communicate with both inter-organizational personnel, program offices, and customers when necessary to scope, plan, and resolve technical issues
• Coordinate with technical experts at contractor facilities to address and resolve concerns of emerging risks
• Work within interdisciplinary teams to address cross-disciplinary issues
• Provide timely technical recommendations to line management and customers through technical briefing and reports

Thermostructures Engineer

Systems Engineer

• Provide systems engineering and acquisition support for National Security Space, civil, and commercial customers with emphasis on providing a sound basis for system acquisition and operational activities
• Create and review acquisition documentation such as RFPs, CDRLs, PWSs, SOOs, and SOWs
• Form and lead teams with an emphasis on requirements engineering and analysis to support Aerospace program offices and customers during early acquisition activities
• Participate in requirements development and management activities, including developing TRDs and analyzing requirements
• Gather, analyze, and document requirements from stakeholders using interviews, workshops, and document analysis
• Lead and support Lifecycle Technical Reviews, Audits, and Milestones
• Guide requirements traceability and management concepts for program offices
• Support maintenance of the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to include updates and approach to ensure requirements are testable and aligned with mission goals
• Mentor staff in support of lifecycle acquisition and systems engineering
• Evaluate opportunities to implement Digital Engineering concepts to streamline lifecycle engineering process and capabilities
• Participate in multi-disciplinary teams for the development and/or evaluation of ground and space system requirements, design and architecture concepts
• Perform independent assessments in support of acquisition milestone events, including identification and assessment of technical risks and development of pre-acquisition design concepts that will drive new systems
• Participate in a broad range of acquisition related activities, including Government source selections, preparing reports, developing briefings, and presenting recommendations to customers and Aerospace management
• Participate in frequent interactions with Aerospace program office, customers, contractors and Engineering and Technology Group (ETG) personnel

Lifecycle Systems Engineer

• Trajectory design and optimization for launch vehicles and spacecraft for missions operating in LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO, and other earth-centric regimes
• Astrodynamics and orbital mechanics analysis including orbit propagation and maneuver design and optimization for orbit transfer, stationkeeping, graveyard, disposal, and reentry events
• Analysis of vehicles with chemical and/or electric propulsion
• Evaluating contested missions applications for space systems to understand threat performance, assess vulnerabilities, and improve system resiliency
• Exploring and defining the evolving Dynamic Space Operations (DSO) mission area
• Maneuver and orbit design, selection, and optimization for missions that support Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) objectives with complex operational constraints
• Developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), exploring Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and incorporating operational constraints into the design and maturation of space systems
• Providing operational support for nominal launch and spacecraft deployment and transfer sequences, anomaly resolution, and on-call emerging events
• Utilizing optimal control, flight mechanics, and computer science/algorithm development skills to create new capabilities to service customer requests as stand-alone services and/or ready-to-integrate submodules
• Combining AI/ML/RL techniques with flight mechanics modeling for assessing complex analysis and decision-making trade spaces
• Performing research and development and building new flight dynamics tools to cultivate and maintain a healthy and modern internal tool base
• Leveraging external tools like ASSET, GPOPS-II, SNOPT, POST, OTIS, Copernicus, GMAT, EMTG, etc. where appropriate to augment internally developed capabilities

Flight Dynamics 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 Enterprise Optimization Analyst

• Provide enterprise engineering and analytical support to defense, intelligence community, and civil government customers in portfolio management, digital engineering, and enterprise systems engineering
• Engage directly with Aerospace program office personnel as well as government customers
• Support the deployment or implementation of existing tools, models, and frameworks
• Identify new capabilities and enhancements that will better support the customer programs and architectures
• Support studies designed to solve complex problems and provide new and innovative technical solutions
• Take initiative to inform management of perceived technical problems and recommend courses of action
• Utilize Aerospace resources, teams, and expertise on the effective use of MBSE methodologies, modeling languages, and tools
• Lead and support studies designed to solve technical problems to provide recommendations to the customer
• Leverage Aerospace’s technical backplane to provide tailored, technical support and innovative solutions for customer-specific use cases
• Provide ongoing technical consultation and advice to management, customers, and contractors
• Provide mentoring and oversight to early career staff, as necessary
• Occasional travel may be required

Enterprise Systems Engineer

Designer

• Leading early-stage design studies for spacecraft concepts; types of studies can include both small, individual efforts as well as larger, multidisciplinary teams of subject matter experts.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in spacecraft-level systems engineering to support execution of customer programs, including during design reviews and other milestones.
• Conduct staff performance reviews and other personnel management functions such as managing team resources and needs, providing career development and mentoring, and recommending personnel staffing requests (hiring, promoting)
• Pursue opportunities for additional, expanded, and new tasking for staff and identify appropriate personnel to perform the work
• Leading the development of capabilities utilizing AI in the concept development of spacecraft or spacecraft ground systems.
• Leading continuous development, maintenance, and improvement of the tools and models that are used during spacecraft concept design and analysis activities.
• Establishing strong working relationships with government, program office, and contractor personnel as well as other members of Aerospace’s engineering group.
• Work with the Enterprise Design Subdivision (E DS) management team to find organizational collaboration opportunities for E DS customers
• Mentoring members of the department

Section Manager, Space Vehicle Concept Design

Communications

• Produce analysis driving recommendations for research, development, and acquisition decisions for legacy and emerging customer communication and ground architectures
• Perform end-to-end (E2E) performance evaluations and analysis-of-alternatives (AoA) using in-house or internally developed analysis tools
• Work closely with senior staff, management, and a team to translate customer needs into project objectives and provide technical evaluations
• Support development and sustainment of the organization’s analysis and simulation tools and capabilities
• Develop and present timely and technically accurate presentations and reports that clearly communicate analysis results to technical leads, management, and customers

Communications Architecture Analyst

• Lead analysis teams driving recommendations for research, development, and acquisition decisions for legacy and emerging customer communication and ground architectures
• Coordinate complex technical tasks among customers, managing resources to efficiently staff and execute projects
• Serve as a technical mentor to junior staff in one or more department focus areas
• Independently translate customer needs into project objectives and provide technical evaluations
• Perform end-to-end (E2E) performance evaluations and analysis-of-alternatives (AoA) using in-house or internally developed analysis tools
• Develop and present timely and technically accurate presentations and reports that clearly communicate analysis results to technical leads, management, and customers

Senior Communications Architecture Analyst

• Provide systems and mission engineering expertise to capture complex system interoperability and identify risks, issues, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Work across program, mission, operations and stakeholder boundaries to champion perspectives into Aerospace assessments on program roadmaps and systems engineering artifacts
• Develop technical guidance, inform technical assessments, and leverage Aerospace ETG resources to augment technical products in support of system integration
• Collaborate closely and effectively with government, Aerospace, other FFRDC and contractor support personnel

Senior Systems Mission Engineer

• Partner with teams to design, manufacture, and operate space vehicles and rocket propulsion systems
• Leverage critical inquiry and scientific methodology to solve complex challenges
• Review test plans, reports, anomalies, variances, hazard reports, and verification documents ensuring all aspects meet stringent criteria
• Identify and assess system risks while developing and implementing mitigation strategies
• Participate in the program risk management process, including preparing presentations for the Chief Engineer’s Office and Program Management
• Collaborate with partners to develop innovative, risk-informed solutions and effectively communicate recommendations to senior leadership
• Serve as a key member of the Mission Support Team responsible for on-console flight monitoring
• Analyze, design, and operate spacecraft, investigating phenomena encountered during flight operations
• Act as a technical authority during design certification, system acceptance reviews, flight test readiness evaluations, and Certification of Flight Readiness
• Work alongside NASA aerospace engineers to integrate new technologies, enhance reliability, extend vehicle lifespans, and reduce total ownership costs

Propulsion Systems Engineer

Engineering Manager

• Develop and articulate a strategic vision for your mission area and cultivate business development across multidisciplinary tool portfolios
• Build and lead teams of analysts
• Provide project leadership by coordinating complex technical tasks among team members, translating customer needs into tasks for analysts and developers, and reviewing work products for quality and accuracy
• Manage the team through effective workload management, performance management, staff engagement, and coordination of departmental logistics
• Lead recruitment, hiring, mentoring efforts to build a highly skilled team for the organization
• Mentor and coach team members to support their technical, leadership, and professional development
• Collaborate with other subdivision departments to enhance career growth opportunities and extend bench depth
• Build and nurture strong relationships with customers to foster solutions for both existing and new challenges
• Guide the development of state-of-the-art modeling and simulation capabilities through strategic planning and resource management