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Space Missions Systems Engineer

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States The Aerospace Corporation Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Space Missions Systems Engineer to join our team at The Aerospace Corporation. As a key member of our C3 Engineering and Operations Department, you will play a critical role in delivering operationally-focused engineering solutions for space enterprise C3 systems, missions, and processes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Advising customers on technical and analytical approaches, force design, systems engineering, development, and acceptance, accreditation, and integration of systems and capabilities.
  • Integrating capabilities delivered from the Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) PEO.
  • Reviewing and validating system requirements, ensuring effective implementation throughout the system design.
  • Assessing and providing feedback on essential documents, such as requirements to design alignments, verification & validation, test plans, test procedures, etc.
  • Overseeing the integration of multiple, interconnected systems to ensure coherent evolution and operation as designed.
  • Developing analytic plans and defining tasks needed to understand missile warning mission needs and refine force designs.
  • Analyzing mission data flows supporting closure of missile warning and missile tracking strategic and theater kill chains from sensor to shooter, including data formats, latencies, and system connections.
  • Helping modernize ground systems and architectures for the future space enterprise.
  • Working across space mission and program boundaries to identify common program challenges and risks, provide enterprise recommendations, and lead issues to closure.
  • Identifying needed expertise and building analytic teams from Aerospace Engineering and Technology Group (ETG) technical specialists to address customers' key technical hard questions and challenges through data-driven analysis.
  • Working closely and effectively with external partners in integrated product teams that include government, contractor, and FFRDC members as an architectural thinker and thought leader.
  • Communicating effectively with all levels of corporate management through timely reporting of technical issues and recommendations.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, or technical science from a recognized institution.
  • 8 years of experience in systems engineering, missile warning systems operations, or developing and analyzing missile warning systems.
  • Familiarity with missile warning and missile defense.
  • Familiarity with SSC, STARCOM, and SWAC customers.
  • Proven ability to lead technical analyses.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Active Secret security clearance; eligible for Top Secret SCI and SAP/SAR.
  • Willing to travel approximately 25%.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, or technical science from a recognized institution.
  • Certified in agile, project management, or related field.
  • Experience managing geographically dispersed teams.
  • Demonstrated software development proficiency in object-oriented programming languages (C++, Python, Java, etc.).
  • Experience with other mission areas like Space Domain Awareness (SDA); intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); command and control (C2); satellite communications (SATCOM) or space data transport; and, position, navigation, and timing (PNT).
  • Experience working with projects that incorporated digital engineering or model-based systems engineering.
  • Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI access and/or SAP/SAR access.
About The Aerospace Corporation

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space-delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil, and commercial customers.

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package, including a 401(k) Plan with company-paid benefits, comprehensive health care and wellness plans, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation, standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options, flexible spending accounts, variable pay program for exceptional contributions, relocation assistance, professional growth and development programs, education assistance programs, and an inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.