Aerospace Mission Analysis Engineer — Simulations

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a qualified analyst to model complex aerospace missions and build high-fidelity simulations for satellites, aircraft, sensors, and ISR systems.

You will explore trade-offs, turn concepts into executable simulations, and develop tools to accelerate analyses while conveying results to engineers, leaders, and customers. This role requires on-site work at a classified facility and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science.
• Willing to work on-site in a classified facility.

Responsibilities

• Model complex aerospace missions.
• Develop, modify, and run high-fidelity simulations of satellites, aircraft, sensors, and ISR systems to understand mission and system performance.
• Explore trades that matter and compare architectures, technologies, operating concepts, and system configurations to identify performance drivers, limitations, risks, and opportunities.
• Turn mission concepts into simulations by building realistic operational scenarios that capture objectives, constraints, environments, and system behavior.
• Create tools, scripts, automation, visualizations, and new simulation capabilities to make analyses faster, deeper, and more repeatable.
• Interpret large simulation datasets to uncover trends, explain system behavior, and translate results into actionable conclusions.
• Evaluate model assumptions, inputs, outputs, and methods through QA/QC and engineering judgment.
• Communicate findings, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineers, program leaders, senior decision-makers, and customers.

Skills

US Citizenship

TS/SCI clearance

Python

Mathematical modeling

Simulation

Data analysis

Stakeholder comms

Team collaboration

Aerospace domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Python

Simulation software

Data visualization tools

Job description

Vantor is seeking a qualified analyst to model complex aerospace missions and build high-fidelity simulations for satellites, aircraft, sensors, and ISR systems.

You will explore trade-offs, turn concepts into executable simulations, and develop tools to accelerate analyses while conveying results to engineers, leaders, and customers. This role requires on-site work at a classified facility and an active TS/SCI clearance.