The Aerospace Corporation

Analyst

• Conduct deep dives, trade studies, and assessments to define and address customer needs in space architecture design and optimization, trade space exploration, and space vehicle design
• Leverage in-house, commercial-off-the-shelf, and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools to deliver technical insights
• Develop analysis software tools and improve existing simulation and analysis capabilities
• Perform space and ground design, optimization, and analysis supporting architecture concept trade studies, requirements verification, analyses-of-alternatives, and performance modeling
• Apply optimization techniques and astrodynamics expertise to integrate space vehicle design with constellation optimization
• Act as a technical expert for a portfolio of high-impact projects
• Present technically accurate presentations and reports communicating analysis results and recommended solutions to technical leads, management, and customers
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-organization partners, government customers, and contractor teammates
• Collaborate with other analysts and contribute across individual and broader team efforts
• Lead and mentor small teams for Sr. Member of the Technical Staff responsibilities

Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst

• Conduct deep dives, trade studies, and assessments to define and address customer needs in space architecture design, optimization, and trade space exploration
• Use in-house, commercial, and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools to deliver technical insights
• Contribute to development of analysis software tools and improve existing simulation and analysis capabilities
• Provide responsive analyses integrating space vehicle design with constellation optimization
• Act as a technical expert for a portfolio of high-impact projects
• Develop and present technically accurate presentations and reports communicating analysis results and recommended solutions
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-organization partners, government customers, and contractor teammates
• Collaborate with other analysts and support multiple programs and activities

Machine Learning Engineer

• Develop and execute machine learning and data science experiments in natural language processing, computer vision, time series analysis, reinforcement learning, and related domains
• Evaluate technologies and data science models for scalable and resilient mission-critical applications
• Collaborate with teams of various sizes to deliver features and products
• Present written and verbal results to customer stakeholders
• Reinforce an environment of learning and progress with team members and others
• Work on multidisciplinary teams spanning various experience levels and organizational boundaries

Machine Learning Engineer, Undergrad Intern

Director

• Lead strategic digital transformation initiatives and define and execute integrated digital transformation roadmaps for Aerospace and government customers
• Modernize M&S workflows, enterprise data management, agentic AI capabilities, and software integration across cloud and HPC environments
• Translate ambiguous, rapidly evolving mission needs into actionable technical strategies and investment priorities
• Develop strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and designs for external customers seeking digital transformation
• Establish governance frameworks, technical standards, program management, financial management, and decision-making processes
• Balance innovation velocity with risk management, security, and compliance requirements for national security space missions
• Influence, develop, and retain technical talent across M&S software integration, data engineering, DevSecOps, cloud architecture, and AI/ML
• Mentor team leads and provide career development guidance
• Build trusted relationships with senior government stakeholders across defense, intelligence, NNSA, and civil space programs
• Identify customer needs, coordinate across Aerospace divisions, and align transformation efforts with mission priorities and operational timelines
• Represent Aerospace digital capabilities at forums and technical working groups
• Accelerate adoption of modern digital capabilities across Aerospace and customer organizations
• Establish communities of practice, measure value delivery through metrics and performance indicators, and manage organizational change
• Integrate needs across M&S software development, enterprise data management, infrastructure, security, and mission operations
• Promote version control, containerization, automated testing and validation, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps principles
• Drive maturity of CI/CD pipelines, software factories, and development workflows

Associate Director – Capability Transformation

DevOps Engineer

• Perform software and hardware development for various cloud-related rapid prototyping activities
• Research and experiment with state-of-the-art software and hardware technologies
• Manage Linux systems to provide SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS capabilities
• Implement DevOps technologies to streamline development, testing, build, and deployment of applications
• Leverage Kubernetes and cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or GCP
• Investigate bleeding-edge cloud technologies for current and future implementation by space-domain customers
• Receive training and mentorship from cloud and software development subject matter experts
• Learn about projects, tools, and technologies used across the enterprise

Site Reliability Engineer

Systems Engineer

• Lead and participate in architecture studies of varying system complexity
• Work with multidisciplinary engineering teams on problem framing, gap analysis, and trade space assessment
• Apply and develop system architecting methods, processes, and tools
• Perform architecture-level assessment, modeling, analysis, and conceptual design activities
• Use, develop, and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate architectural concepts and system conceptual designs for cost, schedule, performance, risk, resilience, and other characteristics
• Architect and implement MBSE and digital engineering capabilities
• Elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies with program office, customer, and contractor personnel
• Mentor junior staff and support study scoping, planning, and execution
• Communicate task status, methods, results, and recommendations in briefings and formal technical reports
• Collaborate across technical disciplines and domains to address complex problems

Systems Architect

Communications

• Gain knowledge and experience in national security space or intelligence mission areas, including communication and ground infrastructures, signals intelligence, geo-spatial intelligence, space surveillance, navigation systems, and space protection
• Produce analysis driving recommendations for research, development, and acquisition decisions for legacy and emerging customer communication and ground architectures
• Perform end-to-end performance evaluations and analysis-of-alternatives using in-house or internally developed analysis tools
• Work with senior staff, management, and team members to translate customer needs into project objectives and provide technical evaluations
• Support development and sustainment of analysis and simulation tools and capabilities
• Develop and present timely, technically accurate presentations and reports communicating analysis results to technical leads, management, and customers

Communications and Architecture Analyst

• Provide subject matter expertise to program offices and government customers in space architecture design and optimization, space network design, orbital analysis, and space security and defense
• Use in-house, commercial-off-the-shelf, and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools to deliver insights through analytical deep dives, trade studies, and assessments
• Expand department optimization capabilities to support additional mission domains and architectures
• Develop and present technically accurate presentations and reports communicating analysis results and recommended solutions
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-organization partners, government customers, and contractor teammates
• Identify and initiate opportunities to sustain, develop, and grow simulation and analysis capabilities
• Technically mentor junior staff in department capability areas
• Occasionally travel to support customer efforts
• Employ and develop sophisticated simulation tools for space and ground design, optimization, and analysis supporting architecture trade studies, requirements verification, analyses-of-alternatives, and performance modeling
• Apply optimization techniques to support data-driven decisions about portfolio composition, budget planning, and commercial purchasing
• Act as a technical expert for high-impact projects and collaborate with other analysts

Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst – Specialist

Manager

• Lead a group of analysts across contested missions/resiliency tactics development and assessment, Rendezvous and Proximity Operations maneuver analysis, and Dynamic Space Operations
• Provide customer interfaces to the operational community, including USSF/SpOC, STARCOM, OTTI, SPACECOM, and NRO components
• Fuse customer needs with equities across SSC, SpRCO, AFRL, NASA, FAA, and NOAA
• Lead geographically distributed teams of analysts and direct reports through workload management, performance assessment, mentoring, and staff development
• Develop relationships with Aerospace Program Offices and US Government customers
• Identify opportunities, deliver tactical solutions, and prioritize business development and long-term customer engagement
• Partner with department management to execute organizational strategy across multiple sections
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and subdivision partnerships
• Enhance warfighter training and develop modeling and simulation capabilities through strategic road mapping and resource integration
• Drive staff retention, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, classified IT resources, and clearance portfolios

Earth-Orbit Flight Dynamics Section Manager

• Lead Aerospace support to the Space Based Sensing and Tracking (SBST) Chief Engineer
• Engage daily with SBST senior leaders, FFRDCs, UARCs, and SETA personnel across all programs
• Establish teams for system-of-systems architecting, digital engineering, verification criteria, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies for total mission success
• Coordinate across Aerospace to advise on manufacturing, testing, and operating proliferated systems in an agile acquisition
• Manage systems engineering practices to devise strategies implementing new acquisition policy initiatives and measure implementation effectiveness
• Drive integration across SBST programs and stakeholder organizations
• Lead the Aerospace Systems Engineering team through acquisitions within the SBST portfolio
• Work with the SBST Chief Architect to establish mission-effectiveness practices and measures for end-to-end mission closure
• Connect and align customers and Aerospace across the space enterprise
• Provide leadership, planning, and warfighter engagement supporting acquisition and development of SBST’s proliferated systems

Director – Space Based Sensing and Targeting Mission Integration

Software Engineer

• Serve as senior mentor for the development of early career staff, providing technical guidance and insight
• Conduct peer reviews of technical products and findings
• Maintain authoritative expertise in the development, analysis, and verification of space structures and structural design criteria and test methods
• Publish clarifications, insights, and guidance on technical topics related to mission assurance and structural verification and validation
• Provide technical leadership for mission assurance processes for U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, and NRO missions
• Perform independent analyses and assessments, hardware reviews, stress analysis report evaluations, flight data evaluations, and flight/test anomaly investigations
• Lead and coordinate technical studies across organizational personnel
• Assess program risk and advise program offices and customers during certification, development, and operational phases
• Represent the organization at technical meetings, presentations, and symposia
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve issues, anomalies, and challenges related to aerospace thermostructural technologies

Senior Thermostructures Engineering, Casual

• Apply expertise in RF payload design, performance analysis, and mission modeling to solve complex challenges in signal propagation, SIGINT system performance, and requirements development
• Develop efficient hardware implementations through advanced digital modeling
• Create signal processing algorithms for signal products and exploitation
• Transform customer needs into actionable analysis plans
• Lead cross-functional analysis efforts and guide stakeholders from concept through execution
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor during requirements development
• Shepherd payload designs from initial program requirements through operational deployment and end-of-life
• Mentor junior engineers and scientists
• Provide strategic matrix support to customers including the United States Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and civil and commercial space organizations

Senior RF Analyst

Researcher

• Conduct fundamental research in formal methods applied to self-healing systems
• Create novel research in formal methods to develop computationally viable deterministic mathematical/logical guarantees for real-time generated patches
• Work with CMTD leadership to create high-impact novel research in formal methods and functional demonstrations
• Conduct literature reviews on computationally viable formal methods
• Develop prototypes illustrating novel research
• Create presentations for various audiences
• Take an active part in shifting the cybersecurity landscape in favor of the defender
• Perform other duties and activities as assigned

Formal Methods Researcher, Graduate Intern

• Support the design, development, and characterization of EO/IR collection capabilities through modeling, analysis, and laboratory capabilities
• Design, develop, demonstrate, and test capabilities for laboratory and field testing
• Explore EO/IR system design trades through modeling, analysis, and/or prototyping
• Implement, develop, and/or assess image processing and data analysis techniques for EO/IR data sets
• Work with junior and senior staff across Aerospace and multiple customers on technical studies as both contributor and leader
• Model system performance, explore new phenomenologies, develop proof-of-concept and prototype systems, assess EO/IR sensor components and systems, and develop algorithms and techniques for remote sensing data analysis and processing

Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst

Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst

Machine Learning Engineer, Undergrad Intern

Associate Director – Capability Transformation

Site Reliability Engineer

Systems Architect

Communications and Architecture Analyst

Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst – Specialist

Earth-Orbit Flight Dynamics Section Manager

Director – Space Based Sensing and Targeting Mission Integration

Senior Thermostructures Engineering, Casual

Senior RF Analyst

Formal Methods Researcher, Graduate Intern

Senior Remote Sensing Specialist