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– delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers.
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– to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.
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Seeking an experienced and motivated Project Engineer for an opportunity in the Production Division.
The selected candidate will serve as a technical advisor to the US Government focusing on risk management, reliability, and mission assurance of a portfolio of engineering and integration efforts for the next generation of Military GPS User Equipment.
The selected candidate will apply systems engineering, software engineering, and risk and reliability engineering methods to assess system and software architectures, designs, development activities, testing, integration, software release management, and sustainment processes to ensure enterprise requirements, CONOPS, and architectural models are accurately derived, allocated, and applied to development efforts, promoting the use of technology and platform efficiencies.
In this role the selected candidate will provide insight to the Government and development contractors on identified risks, issues, opportunities, and associated mitigation strategies and corrective approaches to meet technical objectives and schedule milestones.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Serve as a senior advisor to a team comprised of diversely skilled engineers servicing a major portion of a large project or working across projects, and interfacing regularly with customer and contractor program management
- Provide engineering expertise at technical interchange meetings with Aerospace, customer, and contractor personnel
- Act as senior technical authority, consultant, and primary investigator.
May lead or organize interfaces between customer and other Aerospace technical and management staff.
- Perform and document technology/software risk assessments, recommendations, analysis and trade studies for a diverse set of contractor software frameworks and applications
- Conduct and/or lead studies of system and software quality, design adequacy, and compliance with mission requirements to identify and recommend mitigation approaches for issues
- Assess contractor software development practices, procedures, and performance
- Review contract deliverables and provide technical guidance throughout acquisition and development lifecycles
This position is available as Project Engineer or Senior Project Engineer
What You Need to be Successful (Project Engineer)
Minimum Requirements:
- Systems engineering skills including the ability to understand and explain how specific issues are connected to the broader program execution and development
- Project leadership skills, including the ability to work independently and lead a team
- Demonstrated high level of innovation and creativity in programmatic problem solving
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Information Science, Software or Systems Engineering, or a related STEM field
- 8 or more years of relevant professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering and software engineering
- Willing to travel domestically approx.
25%
- This position requires an active Secret clearance, which is issued by the US government.
U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
What You Need to be Successful (Sr.
Project Engineer)
Minimum Requirements:
- A track record of demonstrating systems engineering skills, including the ability to understand and explain how specific issues are connected to the broader program execution and development
- Experience with project leadership, including the ability to work independently and lead a team
- Demonstrated high level of innovation and creativity in programmatic problem solving, having established and maintained effective working relationships with customers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Information Science, Software or Systems Engineering, or a related STEM field
- 12 or more years of relevant professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering, software engineering, and/or program management environments
- Willing to travel domestically approx.
25%
- This position requires an active Secret clearance, which is issued by the US government.
U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
How You Can Stand Out
It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:
- Advanced degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer or Information Science, or a related STEM field
- Familiarity with government/military acquisition and programmatic processes
- Experience working in a government program office environment
- Experience with digital engineering concepts and tools
- Practical experience with software project management or development techniques
- Experience contributing to systems and software-related specifications and standards
Ways We Reward Our Employees
During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.
Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type.
A few highlights include:
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
- Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
- 401(k) Plan
– Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire - Flexible spending accounts
- Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
- Relocation assistance
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- Education assistance programs
- An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
We are all unique, from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other-the belief that we can make a difference.
This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.
Equal Opportunity Commitment
The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion,genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
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