Senior Flight Safety Analyst – Debris Risk & Trajectory Analysis with Security Clearance

Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base

Position Title:

Senior Flight Safety Analyst – Debris Risk & Trajectory Analysis (Engineering Technician VI)
Company:
Strategic Technology Institute, Inc. (STi)

Location:

Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA 93437 (Primary place of performance)
Anticipated

Start Date:

1 September 2026
Clearance:
Active Secret clearance required EMPLOYMENT NOTE
- • Position is contingent upon contract award and final Government acceptance of proposed Key Personnel. STi is actively identifying highly qualified, cleared candidates for proposal submission and rapid post-award onboarding.

• Period of Performance: 1 September 2026 – 31 August 2027. POSITION OVERVIEW - Strategic Technology Institute, Inc. (STi) is seeking a Senior Flight Safety Analyst to support the U.S. Space Force’s FTT-26 Intercept Mission at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The mission involves the interception of a target by a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile and a simulated intercept by a Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE). The selected candidate will provide expert technical assistance in completing a comprehensive Launch Safety Debris Risk Assessment that quantifies total public risk and determines whether the mission remains below established safety thresholds.
This is a highly specialized technical role requiring the ability to independently plan and execute complex analyses, develop technically defensible modeling approaches, evaluate credible failure scenarios, calculate expected casualty risk, and provide actionable data supporting range-safety and flight-termination decisions.
The ideal candidate will have recent, directly relevant, hands-on experience performing flight-safety analysis, debris modeling, quantitative risk assessment, and range-safety criteria development for missile, interceptor, launch-vehicle, weapons-testing, or comparable aerospace missions. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsibilities include:

• Perform the analyses required to develop a comprehensive Launch Safety Debris Risk Assessment for the FTT-26 Intercept Mission.

• Quantify aggregate mission risk and each participating vehicle’s contribution to that risk

• Develop technically defensible results that support public-safety threshold determinations and mission “Go/No-Go” decisions.

• Analyze credible vehicle failure modes, malfunction scenarios, breakup events, off-nominal trajectories, and errant flight paths.

• Apply Government-furnished reliability data and technically supportable industry-standard probabilities when Government data is unavailable.

• Develop and evaluate nominal and off-nominal trajectory models using Vandenberg Space Force Base-specific Government-furnished data.

• Model potential debris fields using appropriate debris size, mass, velocity, dispersion, and impact characteristics.

• Calculate expected casualty values (Ec) and other quantitative measures of public risk.

• Generate probability-of-impact contours using Government-approved models, such as SLD
30, or comparable risk-analysis tools.

• Evaluate potential impacts to nearby critical facilities, infrastructure, and other resource-protection areas.

• Produce mission flight-control data, including analyses supporting instantaneous impact point (IIP) termination lines, altitude caps, and related mission rules.

• Prepare a comprehensive risk-assessment report documenting methodologies, assumptions, source data, calculations, results, limitations, and recommendations.

• Deliver supporting trajectory models, debris characteristics, risk calculations, analytical datasets, and technical documentation.

• Verify that all credible failure scenarios are addressed and that analytical products are compatible with Range Safety Officer requirements.

• Coordinate with Government engineers, technical subject-matter experts, mission stakeholders, and Range Safety Officers.

• Complete all reports, models, supporting data, and other deliverables according to the Government-approved schedule.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- • Active Secret security clearance at the time required for proposal submission and ability to maintain it throughout performance
• Hands-on experience performing launch, reentry,…