The Aerospace Corporation

General

• Support space mission analyses and operations
• Perform algorithm assessment and development
• Perform space protection and space threat susceptibility, vulnerability analysis and resiliency assessment
• Analyze orbit determination, target tracking, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) analysis, and signal integrity
• Conduct analysis using in-house, custom, commercially available, and government-provided modeling, simulation, and analysis tools
• Apply standard techniques and procedures to carry out prescribed scientific and/or engineering tasks
• Participate in concept development, systems engineering, architecture analysis, algorithm development, and evaluation support for national security space customers
• Receive training and mentorship

Space Control and Awareness Graduate Intern

Software Engineer

• Analyze technical, operational, cost, schedule, and acquisition data to identify trends, risks, dependencies, and performance drivers
• Support life-cycle cost estimates, schedule assessments, economic analyses, and evaluations of government and industry estimates
• Assist with developing and evaluating Integrated Master Schedules and conducting Schedule Risk Assessments
• Identify and quantify program risks
• Apply operations research methods, including modeling, simulation, optimization, and decision analysis
• Support acquisition research, analyses of alternatives, business case analyses, and trade studies involving space and ground systems
• Collaborate with senior staff to develop analytical models, databases, findings, and decision-ready recommendations
• Document analysis and present technical, cost, and programmatic data and findings to peers and management
• Participate in training and mentorship

Engineering Economics & Decision Analysis Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

• Lead early-stage design studies for spacecraft concepts, including small individual efforts and larger multidisciplinary teams
• Lead continuous development, maintenance, and improvement of tools and models used during spacecraft concept design and analysis
• Support development of capabilities within VGCD for ground segment concept design assessment
• Establish strong working relationships with government, program office, contractor personnel, and Aerospace engineering groups

Space Vehicle Concepts Design Engineer

Systems Engineer

• Develop, simulate, and analyze digital system models for space, ground, and launch architectures
• Build, validate, and simulate digital system models representing complex space and defense system architectures and design solutions
• Develop complex queries and AI applications that interrogate digital system models and answer stakeholder questions
• Assist with federating digital system models with mechanical, structural, electrical, and software engineering models to create end-to-end digital thread models
• Develop virtual twin system models that interact with corresponding physical twins through live telemetry updates
• Contribute to innovative digital systems engineering projects as part of the Digital Systems Engineering Department team

Digital Systems Engineering Graduate Intern

• Provide engineering and analytical support to government customers in portfolio management and systems-of-systems engineering
• Interact directly with Aerospace program office personnel and government customers
• Provide enterprise engineering and analytical support in portfolio management, digital engineering, and systems engineering across defense, intelligence, and civil government domains
• Develop enterprise-level models and roadmaps for data-driven decisions on complex, cross-organizational challenges
• Support deployment or implementation of Aerospace tools and frameworks with government customers
• Identify new capabilities and enhancements to better support customers
• Contribute to studies solving new technical problems and providing new technical solutions
• Inform management of perceived technical problems and recommend courses of action
• Collaborate with cross-organizational teams
• Travel occasionally as required

System of Systems Engineer

Recruitment

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for a portfolio of niche and technical positions
• Partner with defined client groups to deliver against hiring goals
• Build and execute creative sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, ClearanceJobs, and other talent platforms
• Identify candidates who hold or are eligible to obtain U.S. government security clearances
• Advise hiring managers and enterprise partners on hiring strategy
• Provide labor market intelligence, calibrate candidates, and influence hiring decisions
• Build consultative relationships with hiring managers, Strategic People Partners, Compensation, and other stakeholders
• Manage requisitions, drive candidates through the pipeline, and maintain Workday data integrity and timely activity
• Deliver an outstanding candidate experience from first contact through offer acceptance
• Track and report pipeline health, time-to-fill, and sourcing effectiveness
• Use data to refine recruiting approaches and inform client conversations

Talent Acquisition Partner

• Lead customer tasking for enterprise-wide security architecture concepts aligned with organizational mission objectives through the system development lifecycle
• Define innovative approaches for developing and enforcing security policies, standards, and governance frameworks across the organization
• Manage Aerospace Engineering Technology Group project teams built for specific customer task needs
• Communicate security strategies, risks, and requirements to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Apply systems security engineering principles to understand threats and corresponding cybersecurity risk management
• Utilize security reference architectures, patterns, and reusable security solutions while considering system performance, usability, and cost
• Lead innovative cyber efforts for Space Force Cyber and Data
• Contribute to the body of knowledge and practice for customer domains
• Transition new ideas and technology to DoD programs and operations
• Provide systems engineering capabilities supporting long-term technical and engineering needs
• Support system-of-systems engineering prioritization, performance testing and verification, capability integration and interoperability, program evaluation, and technology transfer
• Partner with the Portfolio Analysis Department in the Aerospace Engineering Technology Group

Cybersecurity System Engineer – Space Force Cyber and Data

• Provide trajectory design and optimization for hypersonic/high-speed systems, missiles, interceptors, and reentry vehicles
• Conduct missile system and missile defense engagement simulations and performance analyses
• Design multi-domain missions for systems transiting orbital and atmospheric regimes
• Determine constrained optimal control for vehicles with aerodynamic and/or propulsive forces
• Evaluate contested space missions, including threat assessment, vulnerability analysis, and system resiliency improvement
• Develop CONOPS and TTPs and integrate operational constraints for space, near-space, and reentry systems
• Develop new capabilities using optimal control, flight mechanics, and algorithm development
• Conduct algorithm and software R&D to maintain the internal tool base
• Apply external tools such as ASSET, GPOPS-II, SNOPT, POST, OTIS, Copernicus, GMAT, and EMTG
• Support cislunar and exploration-class trajectory optimization and dynamical systems applications
• Analyze time-dependent Traveling Salesman and Facility Location Problems
• Conduct reentry risk and range safety assessments
• Perform astrodynamics analysis, orbit propagation, and maneuver design/optimization
• Provide operational support for launches, spacecraft deployment/transfer, anomaly resolution, and emerging events
• Design and optimize maneuvers and orbits for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
• Design and optimize trajectories for launch vehicles and spacecraft across LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO, and other Earth-centric regimes
• Collaborate with engineering partners to deliver integrated solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and commercial customers

Multi-Domain Trajectory Design Engineer

Analyst

• Develop and apply analytical methods, algorithms, and simulations to solve complex space surveillance challenges
• Use commercial and custom-built modeling and simulation tools to conduct technical analyses
• Evaluate sensor systems and technologies, including electro-optical, infrared, radar, and radio frequency systems
• Assess threats to space systems and contribute to strategies that enhance resilience and protection
• Analyze risks from threats to satellite operations, from interference to counterspace activities
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on studies covering mission operations
• Present findings and lead analytical studies
• Collaborate with government customers, program offices across multiple locations, and technical experts throughout the organization

Space Domain Awareness, Space Control Analyst

Architect

• Lead mission architecture development for DoD space-based missile warning and tracking systems
• Support the SDA Tracking Cell Director and Tracking Tranche Program Managers in delivering warfighter capabilities
• Advise SDA senior leadership on space architecture investment decisions
• Provide Missile Warning, Tracking, and Defense technical leadership across all tranches
• Perform architectural modeling, requirements definition, acquisition support, enterprise stakeholder coordination, partner system integration, and warfighter requirements alignment
• Engage with SDA leaders, FFRDCs, SETAs, UARC personnel, DoD stakeholders, and industry partners
• Guide contract execution, performance assessments, technical trades, on-orbit operations planning, space and ground system integration, technology roadmaps, and future tranche requirements
• Direct technical teams conducting Tracking modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Monitor contractor execution and provide systems engineering and subject-matter-expert support
• Oversee analysis of operational capabilities for missile defense scenarios
• Support the full mission lifecycle from requirements definition and contractor oversight through on-orbit testing and operational integration

Payload & Mission Engineer – SDA Tracking Architecture

Engineer

• Provide flight mechanics expertise for a wide range of customer needs across defense, intelligence, and civil and commercial organizations
• Design and optimize trajectories for launch vehicles and spacecraft across LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO, and other Earth-centric regimes
• Perform astrodynamics and orbital mechanics analysis, including orbit propagation and maneuver design and optimization
• Analyze chemical and/or electric propulsion vehicles
• Evaluate contested mission applications, threat performance, vulnerabilities, and system resiliency
• Explore and define the Dynamic Space Operations mission area
• Design, select, and optimize maneuvers and orbits for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations objectives
• Develop CONOPS and TTPs and incorporate operational constraints into space system design and maturation
• Provide operational support for launches, spacecraft deployment and transfer sequences, anomaly resolution, and on-call emerging events
• Develop optimal control, flight mechanics, computer science, and algorithm-based capabilities and submodules
• Combine AI/ML/RL techniques with flight mechanics modeling for complex analysis and decision-making trade spaces
• Perform research and development and build new flight dynamics tools
• Leverage external tools including ASSET, GPOPS-II, SNOPT, POST, OTIS, Copernicus, GMAT, and EMTG
• Collaborate with engineering partners to deliver integrated solutions for challenging customer problems
• Support potential collaborations in cislunar exploration, hypersonics, missiles, interceptors, reentry vehicles, traveling salesman problems, facility location, and integrated RPO simulations

Flight Dynamics Engineer

Project Manager

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, identifying issues, prioritizing tasks, facilitating communications, and representing the working group
• Perform project engineer and project administrator duties with overall responsibility for assigned projects
• Identify innovative technologies and operational enhancements to improve facility design, safety, resiliency/reliability, and cost efficiency
• Develop and implement analytical techniques to evaluate facility systems and optimize systems design
• Deliver independent, data-driven technical reports and recommendations to management and customers
• Develop and evaluate design criteria and review A-E design packages for adherence, completeness, and accuracy
• Support construction and commissioning activities
• Develop project scopes of work, pre-conceptual design documentation, budgets, cost estimates, and planning/scheduling documentation
• Apply rigorous problem-solving methods to identify root causes of facility system failures
• Mentor team members by providing orientation, technical guidance, and development insight
• Travel to customer and government facilities while representing the company professionally

Architect – Project Manager

Electrical Engineer

• Provide technical expertise to identify innovative technologies and operational enhancements improving design, safety, resiliency/reliability, and cost efficiency
• Develop and implement advanced analytical techniques to evaluate facility systems and optimize electrical systems performance
• Apply rigorous, methodical problem-solving and root-cause determination
• Deliver independent, data-driven technical recommendations to management and customers through verbal and written communication
• Develop and evaluate design criteria and concept design packages
• Support construction and commissioning operations
• Develop test plans, interface control documents, and test procedures
• Travel to customer and/or government facilities while representing the company and department professionally
• For the senior level, lead project teams and mentor junior staff

Senior Electrical Engineer

Growth Marketing

• Own the business growth pipeline for targeted Five Eye (FVEY)+ nations
• Lead campaign development, capture activities, and proposal efforts
• Manage Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems for direct international opportunities and provide CRM support for other international programs
• Develop and execute growth strategies in partnership with International division and LOB leadership
• Expand the market for Aerospace FFRDC-like services to support federal government organizations in target countries
• Strengthen relationships with key allies, agencies, and stakeholders through focused engagement with decision-makers
• Coordinate demonstrations, capability briefings, workshops, and technical exchanges
• Shape the pipeline and build strategic partnerships through country/customer assessments, new mission evaluations, and emerging technology assessments
• Build alliances and enhance credibility through collaboration with international partners
• Travel internationally when strategically necessary to support customer visits and key engagements, maximizing virtual engagement for ongoing relationship management
• Collaborate cross-functionally with capture, proposal, program management, contracts, legal, and pricing teams to ensure successful opportunity pursuit and contract execution
• Track and report on growth metrics, resource expenditure, opportunity pipeline, account plans, and return on investment (ROI)
• Maintain customer information and pipeline databases in CRM
• Participate in budget planning and recommend process improvements

Business Growth Manager – International Programs

Vice President

• Establishing and providing strategic leadership to key civil, commercial and international partners (i.e., NASA, NOAA, NNSA, Aerospace UK)
• Supporting the U.S. government and its allies to solve complex technical challenges within high-consequence environments across the civil space enterprise
• Overseeing systems engineering and integration, hardware and prototype development, launch readiness, and mission assurance
• Collaborating with teams to deliver innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground and cyber systems for defense, intelligence, civil, and commercial customers