MEO Missile Warning & Tracking SEIT Lead

The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care and wellness plans

Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation

Telework options

401(k) Plan

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Professional growth and development

Inclusive work environment

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA, is seeking an MEO Missile Warning & Tracking (MWT) Lead SEIT Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership for Epoch 2, coordinating with government and contractor teams to ensure V&V, integration, and transition to new architecture.

The role requires 12+ years in systems engineering or program management, a STEM bachelor’s, active clearance, and willingness to travel. On-site work at multiple locations; attractive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or other relevant field is required.
• 12 or more years of progressively more responsible experience in systems engineering or program management is required.
• Experience in the acquisition and development of complex technical systems (space, defense, or related high‑reliability industries).
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital technical baselines.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, multi‑stakeholder environments, including differing perspectives on roles, responsibilities, and technical approach among government, contractor, and SETA personnel.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills for interactions at all levels of corporate and government leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to work adaptively on multiple tasks in a small, diverse, geographically distributed team in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to travel domestically as needed to support program activities, typically 4–6 times per year.
• This position requires a current and active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government.
• U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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 subject matter experts (SMEs) to assess the technical adequacy of contractor work products and engineering approach, across both the newly onboarded Epoch 2 vendor and the more mature, post‑CDR vendor
• Build the technical playbook for SEIT processes, technical baseline rigor, and engineering review cadence for the newly selected Epoch 2 vendor, while sustaining disciplined execution and configuration control for the established Epoch 2 vendor
• Provide technical support to interface finalization, giver/receiver (G/R) management, and program systems engineering processes (e.g., engineering review boards, configuration control boards, and other technical exchanges with key external organizations)
• Coordinate with the Aerospace enterprise test lead, Aerospace enterprise SEIT lead, and SETA systems engineering lead to ensure Epoch 2 technical approach remains aligned with broader program and enterprise integration efforts

Skills

MBSE

Senior systems engineering

Acquisition program mgmt

Government/contractor coordination

Written/verbal communication

Travel readiness

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA, is seeking an MEO Missile Warning & Tracking (MWT) Lead SEIT Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership for Epoch 2, coordinating with government and contractor teams to ensure V&V, integration, and transition to new architecture.

The role requires 12+ years in systems engineering or program management, a STEM bachelor’s, active clearance, and willingness to travel. On-site work at multiple locations; attractive compensation and benefits.