- Pay
- $151–227k
- Where
- El Segundo, CA · Aurora, CO · Colorado Springs, CO
- Level
- Senior
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. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.
The Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Material Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers’ portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation. Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems.
The Missile Warning mission is undergoing its biggest architectural shift in a generation — and you'll be at the center of it. Together with government and industry partners, we're shaping the design, development, and fielding of a next-generation constellation of missile warning and tracking satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO). As the MEO Missile Warning & Tracking (MWT) Lead SEIT Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the transition to a new proliferated Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) MEO architecture by providing systems engineering leadership to the Epoch 2 SEIT effort within the MEO MWT program. This is a unique opportunity to help stand up SEIT support for a newly selected Epoch 2 Vendor 2 contractor from day one, while also supporting the more mature Epoch 2 Vendor 1 effort, which has already passed Critical Design Review (CDR). Few roles offer this kind of side-by-side view across two completely different stages of the acquisition lifecycle, on the same mission, at the same time. You'll work closely with the acquisition program office (SSC/SYD 84/MT), the SETA systems engineering lead, and both Epoch 2 contractors to execute a disciplined systems engineering approach spanning early technical baseline development through verification & validation (V&V) and launch & early orbit phase (LEOP) activities.
You won't just be writing requirements or reviewing documents. In this role you will act as the primary Aerospace technical point of contact and liaison to the government for MWT Epoch 2 systems engineering, trusted to keep government leaders, prime contractors, and mission partners aligned as this next-generation missile warning capability takes shape. You’ll also coordinate closely with the Aerospace enterprise test lead and Aerospace enterprise SEIT lead to ensure Epoch 2 activities remain aligned with broader program and enterprise integration efforts.
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at one our facilities in El Segundo, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, or Denver, CO.
What You’ll Be Doing
Drive alignment between the government and contractor teams to ensure requirement decomposition adequacy and to develop and execute the program verification & validation (V&V) approach
Serve as the go-to technical voice for the government test lead and government chief engineer, in coordination with the Aerospace Epoch 2 lead
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