Systems Director – Space Vehicle Bus, GEOINT, On-Site

The Aerospace Corporation; Rio (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plans

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Flexible work schedules

Professional growth

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation’s Imagery Program Division, GEOINT Development Office (GDO), seeks a Systems Director to lead the Space Vehicle engineering team on a premier national program. You will manage design, build, and test of bus subsystems and oversee subsystem integration on the spacecraft.

This leadership role requires coordinating with customer teams across the program and ensuring mission performance alignment, with a focus on staffing and expertise to support end-to-end space vehicle

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering, mathematics, science, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Experience in spacecraft bus subsystem engineering, development, test, launch and initialization, and failure analysis and anomaly resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with a broad range of customers, technologists, program managers, system engineers, and senior government leadership.
• Willing to travel domestically (1-2 weeks per month).
• Current and active TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary link between the Government Space Vehicle Division Lead and the Aerospace team.
• Manage engineering activities related to design, manufacture and test of spacecraft bus subsystems and integration.
• Work with customers to identify engineering support needs, establish priorities, budgets, and manage resources.
• Ensure collaboration across GDO, related program offices and ETG staff.
• Engage ETG matrix support for design, build, test and integration, launch and initialization engineering support.
• Maintain a world-class diverse systems engineering staff and staff development.
• Keep customers informed about issues/risks and mitigation approaches.
• Coordinate across Aerospace, SETA, and customer teams to create enterprise solutions.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Strong communication

Travel willingness

Leadership and staff development

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/related technical discipline

Tools

EPS

C&DH

ACS

FSW

Propulsion

Structures

Mechanisms

Thermal Control

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation’s Imagery Program Division, GEOINT Development Office (GDO), seeks a Systems Director to lead the Space Vehicle engineering team on a premier national program. You will manage design, build, and test of bus subsystems and oversee subsystem integration on the spacecraft.

This leadership role requires coordinating with customer teams across the program and ensuring mission performance alignment, with a focus on staffing and expertise to support end-to-end space vehicle