Orbital Warfare Test Range Engineer

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.

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.

In the Digital and Physical Range division of Space Combat Readiness Training Infrastructure we are looking for a motivated self-starter looking to solve some of the customers’ most challenging problems in Space Warfighting. You will be working with System Delta 81, PAE-Infrastructure, 3

TES, 98 SRS and many other stakeholders in delivering operational training capabilities to the USSF Guardian warfighters. The Orbital Warfare Test Range Engineer examines threats, technology trends, customer strategies; identifies, analyzes risk and proposes mitigations at the architecture, program, project, interface, or operational level. This role will also include recommending, analyzing and assessing future concepts for orbital warfare, options and outcomes via modeling, simulation, test, experimentation, exercises, and employment.

The selected candidate will be required to work full time on-site at our facility in Colorado Springs, at 2424 Garden of the Gods Rd.

• Lead project teams comprising Aerospace, customer, and contractor personnel on multiple concurrent projects to elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies and marshal technical expertise in multiple technical disciplines and domains to enable concurrent engineering approaches
• Ability to collaborate with U.S. government counterparts, and advise senior leaders on engineering solutions through presentations, discussions and decision-making process
• Experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews
• Proven ability to exercise initiative, persistence, and self-management to deliver impactful products in dynamic and/or ambiguous environments

Minimum Requirements for Senior Project Engineer
- Systems Engineering
- Acquisition and Systems Engineering:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited program in engineering, science, mathematics, or an equivalent technical field
• Ten or more years of applicable experience with increasing responsibility in engineering and technical roles
• Current knowledge of Orbital Warfare system technologies, capabilities, acquisition, and an understanding of space and ground systems test, evaluation, and exercise ranges.
• Experience in architecture, design, test, integration, and/or operation of space systems
• Experience with project planning and team leadership
• This position requires a current TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearances, which are issued by the U.S. government; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance
• Willing to travel domestically approx. 10% (as required)

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

• 12 or more years of increasingly responsible professional…