Space Combat Power Systems Engineering Lead

The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,800 - 181,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Paid holidays and vacation

401(k) plan with company matching

Education assistance

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation seeks a Combat Power Systems Engineering Lead to join our El Segundo site and drive critical space-control capabilities for national security missions.

You will assemble and guide multidisciplinary teams, develop feasible system solutions, and coordinate with government partners and contractors in a fast-paced program office environment. A TS/SCI clearance and willingness to travel are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or related technical subject area.
• 8 or more years of progressively more responsible experience.
• Experience in spacecraft development (design, build, integration, or testing)
• Ability to obtain additional security accesses
• Experience building and maintaining effective teams and developing good working interpersonal relations with multiple government partners and contractors
• Ability to travel moderately
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance required, which is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to requirements development, capability evaluation, and implementation of solutions for challenging problems
• Build teams of domain authorities from the Engineering and Technology Group (ETG) to support system development
• Develop, evaluate, and implement concepts, solutions, and tactics, techniques and procedures for addressing challenging problems
• Forge pathways to inform decisions related to feasibility and advise customers and management of activities
• Provide system engineering support. This includes technical guidance and insight of multiple prime contractors, working with the Enterprise community
• Collaborate and guide technical teams to ensure that program office and Aerospace Engineering Matrix staff are effectively teamed to work closely with the customer.
• Develop positive, lasting working relations with customer senior management and all levels of customer/contractor staff

Skills

Spacecraft development

Systems engineering

Team leadership

Agile acquisition

Space operations

Mission assurance

Risk management

Customer liaison

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or related technical subject area

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation seeks a Combat Power Systems Engineering Lead to join our El Segundo site and drive critical space-control capabilities for national security missions.

You will assemble and guide multidisciplinary teams, develop feasible system solutions, and coordinate with government partners and contractors in a fast-paced program office environment. A TS/SCI clearance and willingness to travel are required.