MEO Missile Warning & Tracking SEIT Lead

The Aerospace Corporation; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 151,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care and wellness

Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation

401(k) Plan — company-paid benefit

Relocation assistance

Education assistance programs

Inclusive work environment

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Engineer - Systems Engineering to lead acquisition and SEIT activities for a next-generation missile warning system. This on-site role supports Epoch 2 vendor collaboration and cross-organizational coordination across government and contractor teams.

Responsibilities include driving V&V, risk assessment, and liaison duties with government leaders; travel for program activities is expected, with a focus on DoD-space mission success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field is required.
• 12+ years of progressively responsible systems engineering or program management experience.
• Experience with acquisition and development of complex space/defense systems.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital baselines.
• Ability to travel domestically 4–6 times per year.
• Current and active Secret clearance; ability to obtain TS/SCI; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Drive alignment between government and contractor teams to ensure requirement decomposition adequacy and to develop and execute the program verification & validation 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.
• Proactively identify risk and opportunity trades and present findings to government decision makers; participate in contractor and government risk and opportunity boards.
• Identify, leverage and guide SMEs to assess the technical adequacy of contractor work products and engineering approach across Epoch 2 vendors.
• Build the technical playbook for SEIT processes, technical baseline rigor, and engineering review cadence for the epoch 2 vendor; sustain configuration control for the established vendor.
• Provide technical support to interface finalization, G/R management, and program SE processes (e.g., boards, configuration control).
• Coordinate with enterprise test leads to ensure Epoch 2 technical approach aligns with program and enterprise integration efforts.

Skills

Systems engineering

MBSE

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Engineer - Systems Engineering to lead acquisition and SEIT activities for a next-generation missile warning system. This on-site role supports Epoch 2 vendor collaboration and cross-organizational coordination across government and contractor teams.

Responsibilities include driving V&V, risk assessment, and liaison duties with government leaders; travel for program activities is expected, with a focus on DoD-space mission success.