Orbital Safety Analyst - TS/SCI Eligible, Space Defense

omitron; Vandenberg SFB (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k with company match

Paid Vacation Leave

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Professional Development Reimbursement

Voluntary Life Insurance

E-Verify Participation

Job summary

Omitron is seeking an Orbital Safety Analyst in a role at Vandenberg SFB, CA, focusing on orbital analysis, space defense, and satellite collision avoidance. The position involves solving operational orbital mechanics problems, processing data for orbit states and predictions, and coordinating across teams to provide customer situational awareness.

Requirements include US citizenship, eligibility for TS/SCI clearance, 2+ years in space-related roles, and strong knowledge of orbital mechanics.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• Security clearance: eligible for TS/SCI background investigation.
• 2+ years space-related experience: Space Situational Awareness, catalog maintenance, orbital analysis, and collision avoidance.
• Strong knowledge of orbital mechanics and astrodynamics.
• Familiarity with space object tracking sensors, networks, and data.
• Experience with Linux-based OS (Red Hat / Fedora).
• Familiarity with Astrodynamics Support Workstation software or similar.
• Ability to apply orbital mechanics to orbit determination, perturbations, station keeping.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise to solve orbital mechanics problems and to process data for orbit states and predictions.
• Coordinate and integrate information across functions to develop products for customer situational awareness and decisions.
• Potential to broaden into conjunction assessment, proximity operations, and related orbit analysis tasks.
• Crew work outside of normal business hours when required.

Skills

Orbital mechanics

Astrodynamics

Space Situational Awareness

Data analysis

MS Office

Communication

Perl scripting

Education

Technical degree in Aerospace or Engineering

Physics/Space Operations background

Tools

Linux (Red Hat / Fedora)

Astrodynamics software

Perl scripting

Job description

Omitron is seeking an Orbital Safety Analyst in a role at Vandenberg SFB, CA, focusing on orbital analysis, space defense, and satellite collision avoidance. The position involves solving operational orbital mechanics problems, processing data for orbit states and predictions, and coordinating across teams to provide customer situational awareness.

Requirements include US citizenship, eligibility for TS/SCI clearance, 2+ years in space-related roles, and strong knowledge of orbital mechanics.