The Aerospace Corporation

Systems Engineer

• Providing system acquisition, architecting, and engineering expertise in the national security domains.
• Working with the customer and contractor teams on enterprise requirements development, mission design and test planning
• Work closely with members of a diverse team of military, government civilians, prime contractors, SE&I contractors, FFRDCs, and National Laboratories.
• Participating in studies such as systems architecture analyses, technology development planning and evaluation, organizational effectiveness studies, and risk assessments across program lifecycles.
• Understand and ensure implementation of requirements for ground system design, mission concept of operations, prototype and test, initial flight checkout, flight operations, and operational transition support
• Participating in systems studies and analyses that support technical, programmatic, and organizational decision-making on a variety of projects
• Integrate and leverage all aspects/functions/capability of the Aerospace Corporation in executing the mission portfolio through virtual teaming, backplane engagement, ETG matrix, etc.
• Collaborate and guide technical teams to ensure that program office and Aerospace Engineering Matrix staff are effectively teamed to work closely with the customer
• Developing innovative capabilities and solutions that support our nation’s space, launch, ground, and operations capabilities.
• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Develop positive, lasting working relations with customer management and all levels of customer/contractor staff
• Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned as needed

Aerospace Systems Engineer

Software Engineer

• Project Engineer for Commercial Space Engagements: Serves as the primary DoD interface for commercial space partnerships, technology assessments, and strategic integration initiatives.
• Develops frameworks for evaluating and integrating commercial space capabilities into national security architectures.
• Leads technical analysis for official correspondence between military services, combat support agencies, the intelligence community, Congress, and the White House on space technology matters, including technology maturation assessments, transition strategies, and capability gap analysis.
• Coordinates congressional response actions regarding space technology maturation, transfer, and transition, including preparation of technical briefings, position papers, and testimony support materials.
• Develops technical strategies and roadmaps for priority space technology areas including Multi-Orbit Constellations, Beyond GPS/Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems, AI/ML for space systems, and emerging commercial space partnerships.
• Coordinates with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review processes and supports technology security assessments for space-related transactions and partnerships.
• Conducts comprehensive technical assessments of space systems, architectures, and technology maturation efforts across the DoD space portfolio.
• Performs data-driven analysis of system performance metrics, technical risk, and technology readiness levels to inform senior leader decision-making.
• Develops architecture decision records (ADRs), technical strategy documents, and analytical reports on space technology trends, capability gaps, and investment priorities.
• Provides expert technical translation between engineering teams and senior policy/operational leaders.
• Supports technology transfer and transition analysis, identifying pathways from research through operational deployment.
• Coordinating with internal/external stakeholders to complete studies, and communicate results.
• Conferring with engineers and analysts to provide technical advice and to assist with problem resolution as needed as part of study reach back.
• Providing subject matter expertise analysis of multi-orbit constellations, beyond GPS, novel PNT, OPIR, commercial augmentation, autonomy, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and how novel technology injects would impact these architectures.
• Provide assessments on a variety of interests from policy to capability, operational considerations to "POM after next" examinations of technology.

Senior Research & Engineering Space Technology Advisor

Engineer

• Lead comprehensive programmatic and technical assessments of current and future programs to support agency-level strategic decision-making for NASA, NNSA, NSF, and other civil and commercial customers.
• Perform cost, schedule, and risk analysis throughout the program development lifecycle using MS Project, including detailed earned value analysis to assess programmatic health and inform risk posture.
• Develop analytical products such as independent cost/schedule estimates, architecture studies, technical risk assessments, and comprehensive briefings for senior staff and customer presentations.
• Conduct strategic studies analyzing best practices, standards, and policies across NASA directorates and government agencies, utilizing databases, data sources, and data-driven analytical models.
• Develop innovative programmatic capabilities including Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs), data collection and analysis, Power BI dashboards, data visualizations, and AI/Machine Learning applications.
• Work effectively in a fast-paced team environment managing multiple projects simultaneously, adapting quickly to changing requirements while delivering consistently high-quality products.
• Travel as needed to support various customer locations and project requirements.

Cost and Schedule Engineer

Architect

• Direct complex technical activities, organize multi-disciplinary project teams, and execute a variety of space architecture conceptualization, assessment, and modeling activities and provide decision support expertise to Aerospace program offices as a technical subject matter expert and project leader
• Steer and implement strategy in space system architectures for the department, and seek, identify, and pursue opportunities for additional, expanded, and new business and assist higher management in the evaluation and pursuit of new opportunities
• Lead efforts to identify and incorporate emerging technologies, commercial capabilities, interoperable solutions, and industry best practices into space system architectures
• Campaign to establish new partnerships with a wide range of departments across the Engineering and Technology Group and program offices, serving as the subdivision focal point for leading high-impact space architecture design and evaluation, trade studies, analysis of alternatives, programmatic assessments, and investigating urgent technical problems
• Expand scope of ArCon relationship with program offices and customer bases, such as SSIO, SWAC, SSDP, and the IC, and leverage department staff and expertise from across ETG to solve complex customer problems.
• Facilitate outreach and education of ETG, program offices, customers, and industry on Aerospace space system architecture capabilities
• Initiate new program office relationships to collaboratively define new tasking, utilizing system architecting problem framing principles to enable program offices to define the problem space, create implementation plans, and identify appropriate personnel to perform the work based on your knowledge of resources and expertise across the company
• Mentor early career and experienced staff, serving as a role model and technical advisor to an exceptionally talented and highly motivated cadre of architects, analysts, and modelers to develop department capabilities and meet emerging demand for department expertise.

Space System Architecture Capability Lead

• Lead and participate in architecture studies of complex system concepts, to include multi-disciplinary engineering teams, supporting problem framing, gap analysis, and trade space assessment
• Work with Aerospace program office, customer, and contractor personnel as a technical subject matter expert to elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies; mentor junior staff; support the scoping, planning, and execution of the study; and effectively communicate task status, methods, results, and recommendations in briefings and formal technical reports
• Define system capabilities, system of systems interfaces, and requirements for space and intersegment system architectures to address user needs and perspectives

Senior Space System Architect Engineer

• Provide technical contributions to advanced autonomy research and integration at The Aerospace Corporation
• Execute analytical and testing capabilities to meet the needs of highly autonomous systems
• Work closely with senior staff to help customers identify their autonomy needs and foster lasting relationships that support the entire design and operational life cycle of critical space systems
• Establish Vehicle Autonomy and System Trust subject matter expertise by applying relevant engineering and analytical skills
• Provide direct technical support to a variety of space programs with a focus on autonomy, modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Conduct experimental investigations in the department’s Collaborative and Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem lab (CAVE) or Vehicle Autonomy Lab (VAL)
• Support ongoing research into Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) development for testing satellite systems incorporating advanced autonomous functions and/or artificial intelligence into their architecture

Vehicle Autonomy Engineer

Director

• Provide strategic leadership and direction of technical office staff and operations in support of SDA mission areas, specifically for program enablers such as integration; battle management, command and control; cyber security; and threat assessments.
• Establish objectives and goals, set performance standards, and assess the sufficiency and quality of the team’s services to SDA.
• Lead in accordance with the Aerospace Leadership Competency Model (LCM): Operates Strategically, Engages with Impact, Leads Change, Fosters Innovation, Deliver Results.
• Act as a senior technical mentor to team members.
• Engage daily with SDA senior leaders, FFRDCs, UARCs, and SETA personnel across all program Cells, mission areas, and Tranches in the acquisition and development of the PWSA.
• Communicate frequently with the SDA customer to coordinate and report work progress, issues, and results and ensure rapid and efficient resolution to needs.
• Manage systems engineering support for SDA programs.
• Oversee technical aspects including systems options, performance tradeoffs, requirements flow down, interface analysis, test procedures, and monitoring of contractor performance.
• Direct technical groups performing engineering design, analysis or other research and development activities within project schedule and cost guidelines.
• Additionally, serve in a technical leadership role within an SDA cell.
• Manage organizational resources, operations, and personnel including budget planning, resource allocation, and determining team structure and staffing needs.
• Coordinate work activities and monitor progress to ensure completion within cost and schedule guidelines.
• Conduct staff performance reviews and recommend career development actions.
• Support the transition of SDA mission areas to the new Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) structure, specifically Missile Warning / Missile Tracking and Space-Based Sensing and Tracking portfolios.
• Build bridges to other efforts across Aerospace in these domain areas and facilitate integration across the evolving organizational structure.

Systems Director – Space Development Agency Support

• Advancing our software solutions for modeling and simulation applications
• Leveraging modern tech stack and enforcing best practices in modern software development and maintainability
• Assisting in converting programmatic requirements into actionable work
• Work closely with our cross-mission focused program offices and customers to translate their program needs into modeling, simulation, and analysis tasks.
• Develop and present briefings and reports for program offices and customers.
• Travel occasionally as required

Enterprise Modeling and Simulation Engineer

• Identify payload-related hardware issues / risks, document mitigations, and make recommendations to government customers within a dynamic program office environment.
• Payload-related hardware includes optical telescope and vehicle protection subsystems and their respective auxiliary equipment
• Serve as a principal technical representative to the customer, and facilitate communications with the broader customer payload community
• Leading a diverse team of technical experts within Aerospace ETG to manage and mitigate all technical risks that arise throughout the entire acquisition life cycle
• Ensure effective collaboration and communication across GDO, related Aerospace program offices and Aerospace ETG staff
• Monitor and assist in development of budgets and other resource allocations to accomplish tasks within the payload group

Payload Systems Engineer

• Lead teams that provide technical expertise and capabilities to support customers in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) of space, air, and ground-based systems.
• Serve as a key point of contact for projects investigating tracking performance across various sensing architectures and operational scenarios in both nominal and contested environments.
• Build and nurture collaboration within the department and across other engineering teams to ensure mission success.
• Influence government customers by serving as integration leader for the section’s modeling and simulation capabilities.
• Translate program office needs into modeling, simulation, and analysis project plans and tasks.
• Initiate and participate in collaboration opportunities across program offices and interdisciplinary technical organizations to achieve innovative solutions and optimal efficiencies.
• Use and contribute to the development of in-house and commercial- and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools and analysis products.
• Provide day-to-day oversight for the work done in your section, provide technical guidance as needed.
• Develop and present briefings and reports for program offices and customers.
• Build and maintain a strong base of customers and collaborators for the section through effective working relationships with colleagues, government customers, and contractor teammates.
• Identify, coordinate, and assign work activities for direct reports and facilitate timely completion of these efforts.
• Effectively communicate and manage conflict and competing priorities.
• Develop staff through formal and informal performance management, evaluation, mentoring/coaching, and tasking.
• Lead full-time staff and student intern recruiting, hiring, and onboarding efforts.
• Review section work products for quality and accuracy.
• Promote sharing and exchange of knowledge and information enterprise wide.
• Keep the management team informed regarding section activities and assist in formulating and implementing department strategy and other business functions.

Tracking Architecture Performance Manager

Data Engineer

• Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture frameworks, reference architectures, design patterns, and standards.
• Define target-state data architectures that support analytics, AI/ML, digital engineering, mission applications, and enterprise reporting.
• Assess current-state data environments, identify gaps, and develop practical roadmaps for modernization.
• Design architectures for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and classified networks.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise and mission systems.
• Support integration across legacy systems, data platforms, software factories, analytics environments, and business applications.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with governance, security, compliance, privacy, and mission requirements.
• Advise on data platform capabilities, including data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, catalogs, pipelines, streaming platforms, knowledge graphs, and API layers.
• Architect data foundations that enable reliable AI/ML development, model training, retrieval-augmented generation, advanced analytics, and operational decision support.
• Translate technical architecture concepts into clear guidance for executives, program leaders, engineers, analysts, and data owners.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, working groups, and design sessions.
• Produce clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, roadmaps, standards, decision records, and implementation guidance.

Data Architect

• Leading and orchestrating teams in Mission Engineering and MBSE efforts in support of Golden Dome
• Capturing the needs and voice of the Warfighter to integrate into studies and analyses
• Framing problems and executing studies to ensure team efforts deliver maximum value to government customers
• Influencing key government stakeholders to adopt recommendations based on data
• Working with other Aerospace, government, and contractor engineering teams who reside in different physical locations and time zones, including VA, CO, AL, and CA.
• Ensuring the performance and capabilities of systems within the portfolio are adequate to meet the Golden Dome Program Office’s needs
• Collaborating with other organizations and orchestrating efforts to ensure maximum effectiveness
• Aligning system engineering rigor with rapid development practices

Senior Mission Engineering and Integration Project Lead

• Provide leadership, management as well as content integration expertise to the team supporting NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate Team for all mission-related activities
• Participate in provider forums for technical discussions where decisions are made related to mission risks, testing/training, requirements, and verifications
• Coordinate, support, and manage the team to support suited technical evaluations for mission risks and execution of NASA Concepts of Operations
• Review and inform concurrence to provider-submitted verification documentation
• Identify gaps and risks in provider implementation goals and objectives with regards to mission objectives
• Inform and track mitigations to the risks at the program level(s)
• Provide Technical Authorities (TAs) with the support/assessment to effectively develop recommendations on technical issues and identify emerging issues
• Review provider's verification events and closure notices to ensure hardware meets functional requirements and alignment with mission objectives
• Work with NPD team to deliver high quality deliverables to the NASA customer
• Conducts staff performance reviews and recommends performance improvement, career development, salary and promotion actions; establishes staffing needs and recommends reassignments, training, transfers, and other staff deployments; assists other supervisors in evaluation and assignment of staff

Human Spaceflight Enterprise Systems Director

• Independently lead modeling and analysis studies of MW/MT/MD sensing systems, broader system-of-systems architectures with focus on target tracking performance.
• Collaborate with other team-members to perform 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 tracking algorithms, data-fusion algorithms 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.

Tracking Architecture Engineer

Operations

• Develop and execute the IT operations and user experience strategies to ensure service availability, reliability, and scalability across classified and unclassified environments
• Define and monitor operational KPIs, SLAs, and Experience Level Agreements (XLAs) to track and enhance service performance and user satisfaction
• Establish and maintain runbooks, operational playbooks, and standardized operating procedures to ensure consistent and efficient operations.
• Drive a customer-centric IT culture focused on service excellence and operational efficiency
• Oversee enterprise-wide incident management, including escalation, communication, root cause analysis, and recovery efforts
• Oversee problem management processes to identify systemic issues and eliminate recurring failures
• Manage the change management process in partnership with Application Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to balance speed and risk mitigation
• Ensure consistent adherence to ITIL-based service management practices, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to maintain high availability, reliability, and scalability of IT systems
• Leverage operational data, automation, and analytics to eliminate root causes and improve service resilience
• Manage the enterprise service desk function, ensuring fast resolution times, high-quality support, and positive user experiences
• Drive initiatives to enhance quality of service, self-service capabilities, automation, and ticket reduction
• Align service desk operations with end-user platforms (e.g., endpoint engineering, identity, and collaboration tools) for seamless user support
• Improve service turnaround times, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics across all support channels
• Partner with Stakeholder Partners to align IT operations with mission and business priorities
• Collaborate with Application Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to support deployments, upgrades, and platform changes
• Coordinate with data management teams to ensure operational readiness and support for analytics platforms, data pipelines, and mission-critical services
• Ensure operational compliance with NIST, CMMC, and corporate governance frameworks
• Participate in OCIO governance forums, contributing to strategy, alignment, and operational planning
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, ensuring regulatory and corporate compliance for classified and unclassified environments.
• Maintain documentation, controls, and evidence to support audits and meet internal and external regulatory requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of IT operations, service desk, vendor management professionals across multiple locations
• Foster a culture of accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement within the team
• Develop training, certification, and career development plans to build a high-performing workforce
• Oversee vendor and managed service provider relationships, ensuring cost-effectiveness, performance, and value delivery
• Manage budgets, resource allocation, and co-sourcing arrangements to optimize operational efficiency
• Support organizational growth and productivity improvements by continuously evaluating and enhancing IT infrastructure and operations
• Drive innovation through data-driven insights, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Deliver measurable value through operational excellence, cost optimization, and exceptional user experiences