SDA Tracking Mission Architect & MWTD Lead

The Aerospace Corporation; Riverdale (UT); Presencial; USD 166.000 - 250.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Healthcare plans

Paid holidays

Telework options

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Retirement plan

Descripción de la vacante

The Aerospace Corporation invites a Senior Project Engineer to lead DoD mission-architecture development for space-based missile warning and tracking systems. You will advise SDA leadership, guide MWTD programs, and coordinate across contractors and government partners to ensure warfighter needs are met.

Join a team delivering cutting-edge architectures, including proliferated LEO concepts, with extensive leadership responsibilities and travel requirements.

Formación

• Bachelor’s or Advanced degree from an accredited program in engineering, math, computer science, physics, or other related discipline
• 12+ years of progressive engineering experience in space systems, with demonstrated growth in technical leadership and program influence
• Relevant, progressive experience in Missile Warning, Tracking, and Defense (MWTD) space vehicle development, test, and/or space-to-ground system integration
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional high-performance teams in fast-paced environments, working effectively across the Aerospace Engineering Technology Group matrix and other program offices
• Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes through data-driven analysis while building and maintaining substantive rapport with Aerospace peers and government customers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizing complex technical concepts clearly and building consensus through persuasive, polished professional communication
• Willingness to travel domestically approximately 10% of the time
• Current and active TS/SCI clearance, which is issued by the US government. US citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

Responsabilidades

• Lead cutting-edge mission architecture development for DoD's most advanced space-based missile warning and tracking systems, directly impacting national security and warfighter effectiveness.
• Support the SDA Tracking Cell Director and Tracking Tranche Program Managers in delivering Warfighter capabilities that fill critical capability gaps.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to SDA senior leadership, influencing multi-billion-dollar space architecture investment decisions.
• Provide Missile Warning, Tracking, and Defense (MWTD) technical leadership across all tranches, including architectural modeling, requirements definition, acquisition support, enterprise stakeholder coordination, partner system integration, and ensuring SDA Tracking space and ground efforts fulfill warfighter requirements.
• Drive innovation in proliferated LEO constellation design at the intersection of space systems engineering, missile defense operations, and emerging technologies.
• As Tracking is the primary sensing mission for SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), you will engage daily with SDA senior leaders, FFRDCs, SETAs, UARC personnel, DoD stakeholders, and industry partners to accelerate and enhance missile defense capabilities.
• Provide mission systems engineering expertise to guide contract execution, performance assessments and trades, on-orbit operations planning, PWSA space and ground system integration, technology roadmap development, and future tranche requirement definition.
• Direct high-performing technical teams from Aerospace's Engineering Technology Group, guiding Tracking modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts that validate operational performance and inform billion-dollar acquisition decisions.

Conocimientos

leadership

cross-functional teams

data-driven analysis

communication

travel

Educación

Bachelor's or Advanced degree in engineering, math, CS, physics

Herramientas

STK

EADSIM

AFSIM

Descripción del empleo

The Aerospace Corporation invites a Senior Project Engineer to lead DoD mission-architecture development for space-based missile warning and tracking systems. You will advise SDA leadership, guide MWTD programs, and coordinate across contractors and government partners to ensure warfighter needs are met.

Join a team delivering cutting-edge architectures, including proliferated LEO concepts, with extensive leadership responsibilities and travel requirements.