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.
At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration – to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.
Digital Innovation Division (DID) is accountable for generating and executing integrated strategies,
providing governance, and managing internal investments associated with four technical pillars that form the foundation of Aerospace’s digital transformation.
The Front Office within the Digital Innovation Division is seeking a dynamic systems engineer to join our team. This critical role will establish and maintain robust engineering processes across our newly formed division. The ideal candidate will balance engineering rigor with rapid capability deployment, manage requirements, schedules, and configurations, while also supporting risk and financial management. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of digital engineering capabilities at Aerospace, ensuring long-term sustainability and effectiveness.
Work Model: 100% onsite or hybrid; Chantilly, Colorado Springs, El Segundo, Huntsville (or willing to travel to a SCIF as-needed).
What You’ll Be Doing
- Help instill technical discipline across the newly established DID. This includes the stand up of new systems engineering forums and processes that seek to balance engineering rigor with rapid capability deployment as well as encouraging the adoption of various SE best practices among team members where appropriate.
- Support requirements management. Create, solicit, validate, model, trace, and prioritize capability-level requirements across DID. Ensure capability-level requirements are decomposed and allocated to DID pillars. Once requirements are baselined and assigned, track progress and conduct verification as needed. Ensure that requirement dependencies are captured across DID pillars.
- Support schedule management. Ensure that all DID projects have executable schedules and trace back to requirements. Devise an integrated master schedule that incorporates all projects and allows the team to identify and understand dependencies so that schedule executability can be routinely assessed and monitored.
- Support configuration management. Devise and help execute a configuration management governance structure and process that allows for recording and tracking of the DID technical baseline and managing any changes to it on an ongoing basis.
- Support risk management. Identify, assess, and track top-level risks, issues, and opportunities across DID. Develop integrated risk mitigation strategies where applicable.
- Support financial management. Monitor budget and actual costs incurred across DID and recommend adjustments (e.g., reallocations and reprioritizations) as needed to ensure balanced execution of DID resources across the portfolio of projects. Ensure that unfunded requirements are captured, tracked, prioritized, and presented to leadership on a timely basis.
- Assist with the communication of programmatic status to leadership. Help create and brief cost, schedule, and performance status at periodic program management reviews to the DID General Manager and other senior Aerospace leaders.
- Support development of digital DE architecture. Capture relevant architectural information for each DID pillar to develop and sustain an integrated functional and solution architecture across all DID that represents how Aerospace is delivering digital engineering capabilities
- Support development of sustainment strategy for DID capabilities. Ensure there is an integrated, cost-effective approach to operating and maintaining Aerospace DE capabilities over the long-term.
- Support outreach activities. Engage with Aerospace and government customers to understand their needs and help them understand how DID can assist them.
What You Need to be Successful
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM or other technical discipline
- 8 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills, with a knack for fostering collaboration and working relationships across multiple constituencies, both internal and external to Aerospace
- Demonstrated strong organizational skills to effectively prioritize demands from many different sources
- Effective communication skills: ability to explain complex concepts clearly and concisely
- Problem-solving aptitude: ability to tackle and solve challenging problems
- Experience with program management and/or systems engineering activities
- Position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security 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:
- Advance degree in STEM or other technical discipline
- Experience with Agile framework and Jira
- Familiarity with Digital Engineering concepts and technologies
- Current DoD TS and SSBI/SCI Clearance
- Strong knowledge of systems-of-systems (SoS) engineering and architecting and model-based system engineering (MBSE)
- Extensive knowledge of the breadth and depth of ETG’s technical capabilities and customers
We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge and skills.
(Min – Max)
$117,300 – $175,900
Pay Basis: Annual
Leadership Competencies
Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee, regardless of level and role, can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace, our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders, we want individuals who:
- Operate Strategically
- Lead Change
- Engage with Impact
- Foster Innovation
- Deliver Results
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:
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Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
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Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
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Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
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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
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Flexible spending accounts
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Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
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Relocation assistance
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Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
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Education assistance programs
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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. If you’re an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process, please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by email at ieo.mailbox@aero.org. You can also review Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
