The Aerospace Corporation

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

• Performing fleet monitoring of active launch systems and new launch system development to support NRO launch vehicle certification assessments
• Evaluating launch system technical issues and participating in launch system anomaly investigations which may affect NRO launch schedules or result in NRO mission risks
• Providing technical support to a government/contractor team focused on mission execution and mission success
• Coordinating Aerospace resources to resolve technical issues
• Providing timely and responsive status and recommendations to OSL engineering and mission integration teams
• Performing readiness assessments at key milestones in support of NRO launch readiness and mission certification processes

Launch Systems and Mission Integration Engineer

Technical Project Manager

• Act as a department senior liaison, providing proactive coordination and consultation to customers and Aerospace staff across the company
• Lead software architecture design teams for elements of the corporation’s effort to modernize major software workflows for high performance and cloud computing on internal and external compute resources
• Initiate and conduct efforts to grow and sustain our modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities
• Support organizational and capability strategic planning, identifying opportunities to leverage development and analysis across diverse projects and analysis types
• Engage with software end users and customers to refine capability requirements
• Mature technical expertise in the department through mentoring team members and directing workflow development
• Routinely communicate project progress, including recommended design solutions to technical leads, management, and customers
• Travel, as necessary, to support customer efforts

Senior Technical Project Manager – Distributed Modeling, Simulation

Architect

• Perform modeling and analysis of MW/MT/MD sensors and systems and their broader system-of-systems architectures
• Conduct a range of analysis using a framework of modeling, simulation and analysis capabilities including in-house, custom and commercially available/government provided modeling tools
• Analyze the performance of sensors such as electro-optical (EO), radar and passive radio frequency sensor concepts, architectures, and algorithms
• Develop and implement radar, lidar, and/or related tracking algorithms and help improve existing modeling and simulation tools
• Develop computer tools and simulations to support analyses of interdisciplinary support teams and performing general and specific systems engineering trades assessments

Performance Engineer, Tracking Architecture

• Independently lead tool development designed for modeling and analysis studies of sensors, sensing systems and their broader system-of-systems architectures.
• Collaborate with other team-members to perform tool development and support 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 algorithms for applications including tracking, data-fusion 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.

Senior Tracking Architecture Performance Engineer

• Lead teams to perform assessments using in-house or internally developed analysis tools that drive recommendations for research, development, and acquisition decisions of legacy and emerging customer space-based sensing architectures.
• Partner across ETG to continue quality M&S standards in department capabilities and maintain awareness of software requirements and resources.
• Serve as a technical mentor to junior staff in one or more department focus areas, coordinating training and delivering a strategy for maintaining bench depth in department capabilities.
• Independently translate customer needs into project objectives and instructions for ETG analysts and developers, assemble and lead multi-disciplinary technical teams, track team performance, and review team products for quality and accuracy.
• Work side-by-side with the Aerospace program office and interface with government leaders, contractors, other government agencies, other program offices, and the Aerospace Engineering and Technical Group (ETG) to address issues and provide the customer with the best available technical analyses and recommendations.
• Develop and present timely and technically accurate presentations and reports that clearly communicate analysis results to technical leads, management, and customers.
• Support development and sustainment of the organization’s analysis and simulation tools and capabilities.

Space Architecture Performance Modeling – Simulation Specialist

Project Manager

• Be self-motivating and able to work without appreciable direction from management with overall responsibility for project engineer and project administrator duties directly relating to each project
• Serve as project leader and coordinator of a team of technical contributors, identifying issues, prioritizing tasks, facilitating communications, and acting as spokesperson for the working group
• Provide technical expertise in identifying innovative technologies and operational enhancements to improve facility design, safety, resiliency/reliability, and cost efficiency
• Utilize and/or develop and implement advanced analytical techniques to evaluate facility systems and optimize overall systems design
• Deliver independent, data-driven technical reports and recommendations to management and customers through effective verbal and written communication
• Develop/evaluate design criteria; review A-E design packages for adherence to design objectives, technical completeness, and accuracy; support construction and commissioning activities
• Develop project scopes of work and pre-conceptual design documentation, budgets, project cost estimates and planning/scheduling documentation to support the facility acquisition/procurement process
• Employ a rigorous and methodical approach to problem solving and identifying root cause of facility system failures
• Act as mentor to team members, providing orientation, technical guidance, and development insight
• Travel to customer and/or government facilities while representing the company and department in a professional manner

Architect/Project Manager

Systems Engineer

• Responsively assess the potential impact of current worldwide space and counterspace activities on U.S. national security space operations
• Utilize intelligence sources to perform engineering analysis to identify and mitigate space-based threats and threat enablers
• Conduct detailed technical analyses of current and future space systems
• Develop algorithms to study and/or fuse different sets of information and utilize data analytics to implement advanced processing and analysis techniques
• Identify new areas of concern in Space Domain Awareness and proactively develop recommendations for further global data collection and research
• Identify short- and long-term technical challenges for various customers, including the USAF/USSF, the Intelligence Community, and other government customers
• Prepare technical reports, briefings, and other deliverable materials
• Critically review reports, briefings, and other materials produced by team members
• Support and develop customer relationships

Satellite Systems Analyst

Full-stack Engineer

• Provide essential technology subject matter expertise to the Aerospace/US Government program office team to guide development of future FORGE Mission Data Processing (MDP) capabilities, including framework and software releases
• Serve as a member of the trusted team of FORGE team representatives to the operations community, along with leading acquisition program office responses, engagement, and discussions with operations
• Integrate efforts across FORGE thrust area development activities, including FORGE Framework, FORGE Processing, FORGE C2, and future hosted tenants, to ensure consistency, mission assurance and operational suitability
• Lead technical trades defining/refining future FORGE technical program roadmaps and acquisition plans
• Represent Aerospace in program meetings and technical forums such as design reviews, technical interchanges, test reviews, deficiency review boards, and site-specific meetings
• Work independently with both internal and external customers and with technical support as a technical authority and consultant
• Lead and organize Aerospace’s technical efforts to deliver next-generation OPIR capabilities to operations
• Participate in program status assessments and independent risk assessments that inform Government and Aerospace management of problems and perceived technical problems and recommend courses of action (COA development)
• Provide on-site Aerospace presence and communicating with the customer, SETA, SE&I, and contractors
• Collaborate with SETA, SE&I, and Government customer counterparts to meet mission needs

Technical Lead, Cloud & Software Engineering

Data Engineer

• Define and lead the architecture for an AI-ready data platform supporting real-time, batch, and streaming workloads
• Design distributed data architectures across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments
• Establish multi-domain data federation strategies enabling unified access without unnecessary data movement
• Develop data mesh or data fabric frameworks including domain ownership, interoperability, and governance
• Ensure data readiness for AI (quality, lineage, metadata, labeling, governance)
• Design and implement data services layer (APIs, event streaming, data contracts, schema management)
• Enable interoperability across heterogeneous systems (legacy + modern platforms)
• Implement data governance frameworks including catalog, lineage, and policy enforcement
• Partner with engineering, AI/ML, cloud, and mission stakeholders to drive adoption
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams
• Influence enterprise roadmaps and investment priorities

Senior Data Architect

Procurement

• Lead the sourcing and procurement of indirect goods and services to drive competitive value, supplier performance, and operational excellence across the enterprise
• Evaluate and improve sourcing activities, analyzing supplier performance, market conditions, and cost structures to identify opportunities for efficiency and innovation
• Conduct formal market analysis to assess market trends, behaviors, and cost drivers to support sourcing strategy development
• Develop negotiation strategies, contract structures, and pricing models to ensure best value outcomes and risk mitigation
• Administer sourcing events (RFPs, RFIs, RFQs), lead supplier selection, and manage negotiations and award processes in alignment with category strategies
• Forecast and plan product and service demand for assigned categories and contracts, ensuring alignment with business needs
• Implement procedures and tools to continuously evaluate supplier performance, cost competitiveness, and deliverability
• Manage post-award supplier performance through Supplier Relationship Management, continuous improvement initiatives, and innovation across assigned categories

Strategic Sourcing Buyer, Staff III – Indirect Goods and Services

DevOps Engineer

• Help Department of Defense, intelligence community, NASA, and other government customers plan and execute their risk/reliability activities
• Provide risk and reliability and system safety guidance and analysis for national security space and ground systems
• Work closely with program office customers to perform assessments that provide important insights to senior decision makers
• Lead small teams to accomplish assignments
• Serve as the risk, reliability, and/or system safety subject matter expert for several programs, serving as their point of contact for assessments and guidance
• Engage with other SMEs to deliver critical assessments for senior program managers
• Adapt to a rapidly changing space industry and customer needs by helping to shape our risk/reliability capabilities strategy, developing innovative risk/reliability approaches for new space architectures, and delivering assessments that provide essential insights on time.

Risk and Reliability Engineer, Senior

Engineer

• Represent the Cross-Mission Effectiveness Department as a technical authority in your area(s) of expertise.
• Independently lead and contribute to technical analysis projects to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent team deliveries.
• Exercise your expertise in understanding, modeling, and analyzing enterprise-level integrated missions.
• Use and contribute to the development of in-house and commercial/government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools and analysis products.
• Develop and present briefings and reports for program offices and customers.
• Mentor junior staff members on technical and professional development subjects and contribute to a learning environment where it is encouraged to share ideas and feedback.
• Travel occasionally as required.

Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Engineer

• Perform radio frequency interference analysis and modeling of communications systems to evaluate spectrum sharing strategies and avoid harmful interference
• Use knowledge of RF communications and spectrum regulations to guide program design decisions and ensure regulatory compliance
• Support programs through spectrum registration and coordination processes
• Coordinate with program offices, federal spectrum agencies, and other stakeholders
• Mentor junior employees in spectrum management and engineering

Senior RF Spectrum Engineer

Analyst

• Evaluate national and international spectrum policy activities, including International Telecommunications Union (ITU), White House, Congress, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) actions, to determine impacts to the customer
• Support development and implementation of spectrum plans, strategies, and policies for customer organizations
• Advocate for policy positions to protect the customer’s use of spectrum
• Provide technical analysis to support spectrum reallocation studies
• Coordinate with program offices, federal spectrum agencies, and other stakeholders
• Mentor junior employees in spectrum management and engineering