The Aerospace Corporation

Data Engineer

• Developing cloud native data platforms, tools, and applications to solve some of the toughest problems currently facing the space enterprise.
• Working with and learning from a group of developers and subject matter experts to support a broad array of space-related projects and advance your own skills.
• Leveraging the cloud to provide data engineering and data architecture solutions as our customers’ data volumes continue to grow at exponential rates.
• Interfacing with project leaders, product owners, and customers to convey your key contributions to a project.
• Working closely with National Security Space, United States Space Force, and other Department of Defense customers

Data Platform Software Engineering Intern

Engineer

• Providing concept exploration and engineering support of ground systems for customer programs
• Leading and participating in conceptual and preliminary design studies and trades of ground systems, to include multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Evaluating ground system design and architecture concepts and participating in design reviews
• Working with government and program office personnel and technical experts across Aerospace
• Developing tools and models that support ground system concept design and analysis activities
• Mentoring junior members of the department

Ground Systems Concept Engineer

• Primary Support Hypersonics, missiles, interceptors, and reentry vehicle trajectory design and optimization
• Cislunar and exploration-class orbital mechanics analysis and trajectory optimization
• Time-dependent Traveling Salesman Problems and Facility Location Problem analysis
• Astrodynamics and orbital mechanics analysis including orbit propagation and maneuver design and optimization for orbit transfer, station keeping, 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
• Developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), exploring Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and incorporating operational constraints into the design and maturation of space and near-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
• 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

Mechanical Engineer

• 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.
• 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.
• Supporting the development of similar capabilities within VGCD for the assessment of ground segment concept design.
• Establishing strong working relationships with government, program office, and contractor personnel as well as other members of Aerospace’s engineering group.
• Mentoring junior members of the department.

Space Vehicle Concept Design 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 space vehicle design
• 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

Enterprise Optimization Analyst

Director

• Partner with the department director to synthesize and execute an organizational strategic vision
• Coordinate efforts of multiple department sections, partnering with those management teams
• Serve department staff through workload management, performance management, compensation assessment, staff engagement and retention, and department logistics
• Mentor/coach staff for technical, leadership, and professional development
• Pursue staff and organizational enablers, notably classified IT resources and clearance portfolios.
• Prioritize the department’s business development, capability awareness, recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding endeavors to ensure long-term organizational health and customer engagement
• Develop customer relationships and facilitate opportunities for technical support, with a particular focus on resiliency-centric and operations-centric customer organizations
• Cultivate state-of-the-art modeling and simulation capabilities through strategic road mapping and by fusing customer and internal resources
• Partner with subdivision teams to provide bench depth and career growth opportunities while ensuring appropriate cross-organizational coordination
• Pursue multi-disciplinary opportunities to partner across the corporate engineering landscape, integrating department capabilities into broader workflows
• Travel occasionally (as necessary) to support customer efforts

Spaceflight Mechanics Associate Director

Systems Engineer

• Plan, execute, and lead MBSE and DE R&D initiatives and projects, ensuring integration of systems engineering best practices.
• Provide oversight of project teams developing descriptive models using open-standard modeling languages (SysML, UAFML, BPMN) and industry-recognized tools (e.g., Cameo, Sparx EA, Rhapsody).
• Guide project teams through the full system development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.
• Drive innovation and best practices in MBSE, ensuring alignment with industry trends and organizational, and customer goals.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, including software, hardware, and domain experts, to develop and analyze system models in the systems acquisition and realization lifecycle.
• Author, publish, and present papers, presentations, and training material on MBSE topics of mutual interest to Aerospace and customers.
• Participate in MBSE and DE related standards organizations and profession society working groups (e.g., OMG, INCOSE, Digital Twin Consortium, AIAA, IEEE) representing Aerospace interests.
• Mentor and train junior and mid-level engineers on MBSE principles, practices, and tools.