Senior Mission Engineer full_time NEW

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a diverse and dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities. 

The Mission Engineering Department provides technical expertise and leadership in mission engineering methods, processes, and tools to a broad range of customers, including National Security Space (NSS) and other defense programs, NASA, NOAA, NNSA, and others. Members of the Mission Engineering Department evaluate and assess customer mission-integration needs and/or challenges, develop end-to-end mission threads, and provide timely advice, make recommendations to enterprise leaders on risks, issues, and gaps, and develop recommended solutions to enable desired mission outcomes. The Mission Engineering Department applies the mission-engineering tradecraft to build and analyze end-to-end effects-chains.  

Senior Engineering Specialists typically serve as senior technical authority, consultant, primary investigator, or team leader on one or more projects. They lead or organize interfaces between customers’ and Aerospace technical and management staff, coordinate large-scale technical efforts across program/project lines, mentor and serve as role models for junior staff. 

Work Model:

This is an on-site position based in Colorado Springs, CO.  

What You’ll Be Doing  

• You will design and develop system of systems and enterprise engineering MBSE models and mission engineering principles to capture end-to-end mission threads 

• You will develop and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate program and mission strategic concepts to influence solution conceptual designs for performance, risk, and resilience to disruptive events or threats 

• You will lead development of architecture for modeling, simulation, and data tools and their interactions, defining concepts of operations and use cases, and overseeing implementation to ensure that intended objectives are met 

• You will lead and develop models and analysis to identify risks on new capabilities.  The analysis will include strategic assessments, operations, resources, networks, and data across the national security space enterprise.  The recommendations will inform customer decisions on priorities, funding, requirements, and resourcing for organizations, systems, and training 

• You will 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, developing and mentoring junior staff as part of the role 

What You Need to be Successful  

Minimum Requirements for Sr. Engineering Specialist: 

• You must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or a Bachelor’s degree and equivalent technical experience 

• You must have substantive experience in the space, intelligence, and/or defense domains, typically 12 or more years 

• You must be proficient with engineering and analytic capabilities such as Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or modeling and simulation. 

• You must have experience with project planning and team leadership 

• You need excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with customers, Aerospace program offices, and contractors; to collaborate with other functional organizations within Aerospace; and to mentor and develop junior staff  

• You must have experience developing and presenting strategic decision-making and strategic communications artifacts for senior-level management and technical architecture design artifacts for engineering-level reviews 

• You need exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and to organize and lead cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute studies and assessments 

• You must be available and willing to travel domestically and internationally approx. 5-10% 

• This position requires a current and active TS/SCI 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: 

• Advanced degree in engineering, math, science, or related technical discipline 

• Demonstrated success in organizing and leading cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to execute studies and assessments and generate quality products 

• More relevant work and/or graduate school experience, greater than 5 years, in system or enterprise architecting, systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, or digital engineering 

• More relevant work and/or graduate school experience, greater than 5 years, in space systems.  Experience in command and control, system of systems engineering, system test, and training are desired. 

• Hands-on experience with system or enterprise modeling in the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), or Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) 

• Experience working closely with key Aerospace customer agencies in the defense and intelligence community, including strong knowledge of their domain and strong professional networks 

• Experience leading and executing digital transformation initiatives