GPS GenSatellite Lead

Position: GPS Gen4 Satellite 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 Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers’ portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation.

Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems.

Aerospace’s Comm and Navigation Capabilities Division is bringing technical engineering capabilities to the fast-moving and highly impactful field of space-based navigation.  We are leading the architecting, acquisition, and development of GPS Gen4, which is the next generation of GPS satellites that will be a proliferated constellation of small satellites, focusing on “new space” commercial companies and rapid fielding of new capabilities.

The program will follow agile acquisition tenants to move fast in the modern contested environment. The team participates in a wide range of technical activities, including leading evaluation of new capabilities to shape the future of GPS, working with government, contractors, and military and civil GPS users to influence decisions on GPS satellites and Ground segments. We are looking for an enthusiastic
** GPS Gen4 Satellite Lead (Project Engineer/Sr. Project Engineer – Systems Engineering – Acquisition)
** with excellent communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills to be shoulder to shoulder with the customer in defining the next generation of PNT space systems: GPS Gen
4. The selected applicant will be required to interact with the USSF, Aerospace’s Engineering & Technology Group (ETG), and contractors in a customer-facing program office environment. This opportunity provides interaction with Aerospace senior management and experience in a program office environment, as well as builds close working relationships with government and contractor counterparts.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in El Segundo, CA at Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB).
** What You’ll Be Doing
*** Engage with impact to help the USSF develop the acquisition strategy and reference architecture of GPS Gen4 satellites
* Operate strategically in leading the development of the GPS Gen4 satellites, including technical performance assessments of new capabilities, risk management, and program execution acting as the technical representative to the USSF as the Satellite Lead
* Foster innovation within small group trade studies to ensure the Gen4 program is agile and flexible while collaborating as part of a team that includes Aerospace, the government, and SE&I/SETA contractors
* Lead change with the customer team to develop a way forward for future GPS acquisitions
* Develop leadership briefings and reports, and provide technical data to the USSF and Aerospace management
** What You Need to be Successful
*** Minimum Requirements for
* * Project Engineer – Systems…