Program Analyst
Listed on 2026-09-11
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer -
Engineering
Systems Engineer
Overview
PROGRAM ANALYST
LOCATION:El Segundo, CA
JOB STATUS:Fulltime
CLEARANCE:TS/SCI Eligible
TRAVEL:As Needed
SALARY: $150K-$175K
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Program Analyst/Senior Space Systems Engineer to join the
Task Force Futures Team, Space Systems Integration Office (SSIO), Space Systems Command (SSC), Los Angeles AFB, El Segundo, CA.
As a member of the Task Force Futures Team, you will play a critical role in developing, advancing, and delivering system-of-systems space capabilities in support of national security objectives. This is an opportunity to define the future of space operations, shape enterprise requirements, perform mission engineering, and drive science and technology investments across USSF mission portfolios.
You will contribute to Development Plans for USSF core and enterprise functions that bridge future warfighter capability needs to a plan for acquiring materiel solutions.
You will also create a roadmap of activities and technology maturation processes that guide requirements and acquisition efforts.
You will have opportunities to learn and use innovative tools, such as Artificial Intelligence, to analyze data and create work products.
Astrion has a solid history with the USSF where it has earned a reputation for on-time delivery of high-quality products tailored to the needs of its clients. Our support serves numerous government customers across SSIO for systems engineering and integration of Space Force projects to a variety of tasks and projects.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS- Experience in supporting space systems acquisitions, systems engineering, and operations; must be knowledgeable of DoD acquisition processes
- USAF/USSF Corporate Science and Technology maturation experience
- Master's Degree in a related STEM field (i.e. Engineering or Mathematics)
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to track/perform all functional duties independently
- Current Top Secret Security Clearance, SCI eligible
- Experience using AI Tools to analyze and develop data
- Demonstrated proficiency with management of tactical and strategic communications, marketing, and development of work products
- Exceptional customer relationship management highly desirable
- Evaluation and assessment of future space and missile Systems of Systems (SoS) and Families of Systems (FoS) at the cross-enterprise level, linking materiel solutions to warfighter capability needs in new combinations
- Create and assess systems, enterprise, and scenario-based roadmaps
- Perform assessment of technology needs, threats and gaps
- Provide cross-enterprise architecting analysis, engineering best practices, and enterprise level integration to provide highly integrated space enterprise capabilities to the warfighter and rapid decision quality support for key modernization orrecapitalization decisions
- Create and synchronize the enterprise SoS policy and processes tosupport SSC mission across multiple space programs
- Assist government managers in the management of projects and taskings by developing and tracking performance and schedule
- Support technology development to improve the number of successful technologyplans and the eventual investments and projects that meet technology needs
- Support analysis of capability gaps or shortfalls and what technology needs may bederived or evident in that problem area; work products include rationale, an approach to investigate or develop courses of actions as proposals the Science and Technology (S&T) community should assess
- Technical support includes engineering evaluation of technology performance (technical performance measures), the maturation timelines (the roadmap), and the criteria and mechanisms to transition the technology to acquisition…
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