Space Systems Architecture Engineer full_time

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. 

 Work Model:

This is an on-site position based in Colorado Springs. In-person presence will be required for customer meetings and classified work. 

What You’ll Be Doing  

• Apply and develop disciplined mission engineering, system architecting methods, simulation, processes, and tools in a broad range of architecture-level assessment, modeling, analysis, and conceptual design activities 

• Apply and develop innovative methods, processes, and tools to architect and implement model-based systems engineering (MBSE), simulation, and digital engineering (DE) capabilities 

• Use, develop, and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate effect chains and system conceptual designs for cost, schedule, performance, risk, resilience to disruptive events or threats, and other characteristics 

• Inform system architecting and acquisition decisions with expertise in relevant systems, technologies, threats, policy, and the industrial base in the space domain 

• Collaborate with other Aerospace personnel to marshal technical expertise in multiple technical disciplines and domains to enable concurrent engineering approaches to address complex problems 

• Work with Aerospace program office, customer, and contractor personnel to elicit and identify needs, requirements, and constraints for studies; build cross-disciplinary teams; scope, plan, and execute the study; and effectively communicate task status, methods, results, and recommendations in briefings and formal technical reports 

What You Need to be Successful  

Minimum Requirements: Member of Technical Staff 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, science, or related technical discipline 

• Relevant work and/or graduate school experience, 2 years, in system or enterprise architecting, systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, or digital engineering, or space systems or nuclear weapons systems. 

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills and ability to work effectively with a diverse set of collaborators 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present methods and results effectively in briefings, formal reports, and informal communications 

• Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects 

• Ability to learn new skills and acquire knowledge through self-study and proactive engagement with mentors and subject matter experts 

• Willing to travel [domestically/internationally] approx. 10% 

• This 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: 

• 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 3 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 3 years, in space systems or nuclear weapons systems 

• 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) 

• Current active US government issued security clearance