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The Aerospace Corporation

Mission Engineering Specialist/Senior Mission Engineering Specialist

AI summary of the role

This role leads mission engineering and MBSE efforts for the Enterprise Effects Division, developing end-to-end mission threads and analytical models to assess risks and inform strategic decisions for national security space customers.

What you’ll do

  • Design and develop system of systems and enterprise engineering MBSE models and mission engineering principles to capture end-to-end mission threads
  • Develop and integrate analytical methods and tools to evaluate program and mission strategic concepts for performance, risk, and resilience
  • Lead development of architecture for modeling, simulation, and data tools, defining concepts of operations and use cases
  • Lead project teams comprising Aerospace, customer, and contractor personnel on multiple concurrent projects

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, physics, math, or STEM field
  • Substantive experience in space, intelligence, and/or defense domains (6+ years for Specialist; 10+ years for Senior Specialist)
  • Proficient with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or modeling and simulation
  • Experience with project planning and team leadership

Technologies

MBSE · SysML · UAF · UPDM · AFSIM · Python · Matlab · C++ · Systems Tool Kit · modeling and simulation

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:

architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities. The Mission Engineering Department (MED) provides technical expertise and leadership in mission engineering methods, processes, and tools to a broad range of customers, including DoD, NSS, 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. MED applies the mission-engineering tradecraft to characterize, build, and analyze end-to-end effects-chains. Engineering Specialists / Senior Engineering Specialists typically serve as technical authority, consultant, primary investigator, or team
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