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The Aerospace Corporation

Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) Sr. Space Systems Lead Payload Engineer

AI summary of the role

Lead payload engineering for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) program, a critical national security space communications satellite initiative for NC3 users.

What you’ll do

  • Lead the Aerospace program office payload team and provide technical advisement for the mission payload portfolio including phased array antenna, crosslink, XDR modem subsystems.
  • Provide insight to Aerospace leadership and the customer on prime contractor execution status, risks, issues, and opportunities for the payload.
  • Deliver technical position papers, design assessments, and briefings on technical, cost, and schedule risk relating to communication payload design and implementation.
  • Act as senior technical advisor to the Space Force customer on payload architecture and performance.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or science from a recognized institution or a related STEM field.
  • 12 or more years of escalating responsibilities in professional engineering/scientific experience working across government programs.
  • Significant experience with satellite communication hardware and/or digital/analog waveform processing.
  • Active Top Secret and SBI clearance issued by the US government; U.S. citizenship required.

Technologies

phased array antenna · crosslink · XDR modem · satellite communication hardware · digital/analog waveform processing · systems engineering · IEEE 15288.2 · MILSATCOM · RF · space systems

About The Aerospace Corporation

Independent nonprofit FFRDC delivering objective systems engineering, mission assurance, R&D, and integration for U.S. national-security, civil, and commercial space programs.

Bootstrapped · 2000–5000 people

Source and classification

Deployment strategy · Evidence for this classification:

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. The ESS Program seeks a Sr. Space Systems Lead Payload Engineer to serve as the technical leader for payload engineering within an integrated program office supporting the U.S. Space Force. This leadership
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