Mission Thread and Integration Engineer

## Mission Thread and Integration Engineer Apply:
Chantilly, VA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R016689

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.  Directorate E provides on-site support within a government program office in the oversight and management of a complex new national security satellite system.

Within Directorate E, Aerospace provides acquisition, mission assurance, analytic, and systems engineering support. The Future Capabilities team supports the Chief Architect and Chief Engineer of a Directorate of a major customer in the National Security Space portfolio. In this opportunity you will serve as a
** Mission Thread nad Integration Engineer (Project Engineer/Sr. Project Engineer – Enterprise Systems Engineering)
** for a new architecture, to include all associated system and subsystem interfaces and functionality. You will be the team’s front-facing representative with Senior Government Officials to review and advise them on system engineering and mission integration, requirements authoring and flow-down, process and change management, and risk management. You will work closely with government counterparts to perform cross-Directorate integration of systems to meet stated operational capabilities.

Additionally, you will work with the Aerospace modeling and simulation team to analyze impacts from requirements changes, architecture changes, and to define impacts to risks.

This is a full-time position based in Chantilly, VA, which requires 100% onsite work at a customer facility.  
** What You’ll Be Doing
*** Serve as a multi-disciplined systems engineer in the program office assisting in the development and fielding of the next generation SIGINT architecture
* Contribute to (Project Engineer) or Lead (Sr. Project Engineer) cross-Directorate Mission Thread integration to ensure alignment of system acquisitions and operational capabilities.
* Investigate and be familiar with (Project Engineer) and contribute to authorship of (Sr. Project Engineer) interface definitions across the architecture, to include space, ground C2 and processing
* Contribute to (Project Engineer) or Lead (Sr. Project Engineer) architectural implementation trades leveraging the Aerospace mission analysis team
* Identify opportunities for (Project Engineer) and/or Lead (Sr. Project Engineer) Aerospace matrix engineering organization and laboratory resources (ETG) to support concept development, requirement and mission analyses, and technology demonstrations
* Engage with (Project Engineer) or serve as the primary Aerospace interface to (Sr. Project Engineer) the Government Customer(s), while working collaboratively with a wide variety of other support contractors (e.g.

- SETA) and development contractors who are associated with the program
* Present technical findings and recommendations to (Project Engineer) and/or independently generate technical findings and recommendations…