Spacecraft Program Lead

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators.

Join us and take your place in space.

The National Systems Group serves as the technical advisor to the Intelligence Community and its mission partners involved in the collection and distribution of national and tactical intelligence, including electronics programs, advanced technologies, ground and communications, imagery programs, and systems engineering and launch.

The Survivability and Resilience Office (SRO) of the Advanced Technology Division offers broadening opportunities to make a lasting impact on mission success in a rapidly evolving mission area that requires end-to-end integration, cross-organizational reach, has varying mission assurance and acquisition approaches, and spans R&D to major system acquisition. We are looking for a Spacecraft Program Lead (Senior Project Leader - Multi-Disciplinary Engineering) to lead a cutting-edge, fast-paced, hi-visibility demonstration program for the Resiliency Program Office.

In this role you will be the sole program office representative with responsibility to manage technical scope, programmatic activities, PTS expenditures, and reach back tasking and deliverables. You will be expected to interact with, and build relationships with, Senior customer leadership—both internal and external—and build / lead high performance ETG teams delivering targeted technical solutions for the program’s most critical technical issues.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Chantilly, VA.

• Collaborating with program office, contractor, and ETG counterparts in a high-velocity environment to establish and execute an innovative, tailored mission assurance baseline for a hi-visibility, first of its kind, demonstration program

• Building, and leading, a high-impact, focused ETG team of subject matter experts addressing critical technical issues

• Anticipating technical challenges and proactively coordinating critical support and potential risk mitigation strategies to the customer and contractor

• Leading development / publication of periodic program Mission Assurance Reports detailing Aerospace contributions and highlighting programmatic risks

• Managing system engineering activities related to CONOPS development, mission analysis for requirement compliance, mission assurance activities to include: parts and materials assessment, reliability, fault management, V&V plans, Flight software and specialty engineering

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, science, or mathematics from an accredited institution

• 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments

• Direct experience with National Security Space systems design, manufacture, integration and/or test with demonstrable results

• Proven ability to collaborate with engineering resources to develop technical positions, provide risk assessments and formulate associated courses of action

• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative on-site office environment with the Government customer, SETA personnel, and prime contractor

• Ability to support some routine travel

• Ability to have and maintain a current and active TS/SCI security clearance issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• Advanced degree in science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.

• Depth in one or more space subsystems or related specialties

• Experience working in…