The Aerospace Corporation

International Lead Systems Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation$155K — $233K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in relevant engineering, mathematics, or science field
  • 12 years of experience in space or ground systems development
  • Strategic thinking skills for planning and implementing new strategies
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building abilities
  • Adaptability to fast-changing environments
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%
  • Current TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph required

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical knowledge to develop international space security partnerships
  • Assist in preparing strategic and execution plans
  • Coordinate technical assessments of potential R&D activities
  • Facilitate new partnerships and R&D activities across organizations
  • Ensure mission assurance for system development
  • Support test planning, execution, and technology assessments
  • Anticipate future needs and generate innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
  • Flexible work schedules and telework options
  • Generous 401(k) plan with immediate eligibility and vesting
  • Professional growth and development programs
  • Education assistance programs
  • Relocation assistance
  • Inclusive work environment focused on teamwork and respect
Full Job Description

The National Systems Group serves as the technical advisor to the Intelligence Community and its mission partners involved in the collection and distribution of national and tactical intelligence, including electronics programs, advanced technologies, ground and communications, imagery programs, and systems engineering and launch.

The Advanced Research and Engineering (AR&E) Sub-Division is seeking an innovative and proactive International Lead System Engineer (Senior Project Leader 6 Systems Engineering) to support customer efforts to demonstrate new system capabilities and foster collaboration not only across the enterprise, but with external international partners. In this role, you will help to identify and strategize opportunities for collaborative research and development activities across organizations and help foster them through execution. You will also support the development of new partnerships for R&D.

This is a full-time position based in Chantilly, VA, which requires 100% onsite work.

What You 2ll Be Doing

  • Provide technical and programmatic knowledge to customers to develop international space security cooperation partnerships for research and development systems.
  • Assist the customer in the preparation of strategic plans, program plans, and execution strategies
  • Coordinate ETG teams for technical assessments of potential R&D activities.
  • Cooperatively work across the enterprise to identify, facilitate, and develop new partnerships and R&D activities.
  • Provide mission assurance to system development efforts.
  • Provide support as needed to the various projects for test planning & execution, technology assessments for hardware and software, and demonstrations.
  • Anticipate future enterprise needs and generate new and innovative solutions.
  • Serve as the lead to the National Systems Group export related coordination across the Enterprise

What You Need to be Successful - Senior Project Leader 6 Systems Engineering

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor 2s OR Advanced degree in a relevant engineering, mathematics, or science field
  • 12 years of experience in space systems or ground systems development.
  • An ability think strategically and develop plans to effectively implement new strategies.
  • Demonstrates excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building abilities
  • An ability to adapt to fast changing environments.
  • Willing to travel domestically and internationally up to15%.
  • This position requires a current and active TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph, 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 a relevant engineering, mathematics, or science field
  • Experience working collaborative technology development efforts that span across multiple organizations and locations.
  • Experience with software development, AI/ML and testing methods for operational systems.

We offer a competitive compensation package where you 2ll 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)

$155,900.00 - $233,900.00

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:

  • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans

  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation

  • Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options

  • 401(k) Plan 6 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

  • Flexible spending accounts

  • Variable pay program for exceptional contributions

  • Relocation assistance

  • Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career

  • Education assistance programs

  • An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

We are all unique, from various backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other 6the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.

About The Aerospace Corporation

The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) headquartered in El Segundo, California. The corporation provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers. Aerospace also designs and develops spacecraft, sensors, and other systems in support of national security, civil, and commercial customers. The corporation has more than 4,000 employees and operates a number of laboratories and test facilities across the United States.
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1960

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