Senior Electro-Optical Engineer
Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
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Location | Albuquerque, NM, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or applicable subject area
- 12 or more years of related experience
- Experience in electro-optical payload or sensor acquisition, analysis, and/or development
- Knowledge of systems engineering and systems integration
- Willing to travel domestically approx. 20%
- Adapting mission assurance practices to align with program risk tolerance
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Aerospace Senior Project Engineer assisting in the acquisition of a complex national capability
- Work with teams of technical domain experts to advise the acquisition, launch test and operations integration for a series of advanced electro optical mission payload and associated spacecraft development efforts
- Work with teams of technical domain experts to conduct analysis of program concepts of operation, as well as development contractor design solutions and associated anomalies
- Have direct day to day interaction counseling government and mission partner decision makers on payload and mission technical topics, progress and mission assurance
- Have routine interaction participating in government oversight with prime and subcontractor development partners
- Brief technical initiatives, status and corrective recommendations to government and Aerospace management
- Provide interdisciplinary technical leadership to Integration Teams supporting Space superiority efforts
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced STEM or related degree
- Experience supporting mission assurance assessments of complex hardware design programs
- Experience working with leading matrix technical support across multiple concurrent technical domain areas
- Current ability to obtain and maintain eligibility for Department of Defense (DoD) Special Access Programs (SAP)