Senior SATCOM Test & Systems Engineering Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care and wellness

Relocation assistance

Flexible spending accounts

Education assistance programs

Professional growth and development

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation is a trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving hard problems with unmatched technical expertise. We operate as an FFDRDC delivering solutions across satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil, and commercial customers.

Senior Project Engineer – Systems Engineering leads integrated test campaigns, collaborates with government and SE&I leads, and guides risk‑based decisions to ensure robust system test flows for complex space programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, mathematics, or engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in integration and test.
• Experience with DoD, USAF, and/or USSF Test and Evaluation policy, guidance, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with government customers, SETA contractors, and key stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills for interactions at all levels of government and corporate leadership.
• Requires an active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
• Willingness to travel domestically up to 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the ESS program office in developing and executing an integrated system test campaign across a multi‑contractor system baseline.
• Work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with government, SETA, SE&I and other FFRDC leads to ensure system test is well integrated with the broader program systems engineering approach.
• Support government collaboration with key external test organizations to include those responsible for conducting OT&E.
• Lead the test team in proactively identifying test‑related risk and opportunity trades, executing technical assessments of contractor test artifacts and present findings to government decision makers.
• Conduct risk and opportunity trades, and assess contractor test artifacts for adequacy and integration into the broader system test flow.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in science, mathematics, or engineering discipline

12+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in integration and test

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation is a trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving hard problems with unmatched technical expertise. We operate as an FFDRDC delivering solutions across satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil, and commercial customers.

Senior Project Engineer – Systems Engineering leads integrated test campaigns, collaborates with government and SE&I leads, and guides risk‑based decisions to ensure robust system test flows for complex space programs.