MW/MT/MD Project Engineer / Sr. Project Engineer
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
|---|---|
| Location | Colorado Springs, CO, USA, Chantilly, VA, USA, El Segundo, CA, USA |
| Salary | $12900 – $249600 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical engineering or science discipline (Aerospace Eng., Electrical Eng., Mathematics, Physics or related field) is required.
- A minimum of 6 years of applicable professional experience leading technical teams and coordinating complex modeling and analysis tasks.
- Experience in algorithm development in Multi-Target Tracking, radar and EO/IR sensor tasking and custody, Missile Defense Battle Management or other related fields.
- Willingness to occasionally travel and/or work off-business hours to support customer needs, approximately 10% (as required).
- This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
- A minimum of 10 years of applicable professional experience leading technical teams and coordinating complex modeling and analysis tasks (for Senior Project Engineer).
Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction and advice to Technical Leads and members in algorithm development and detailed analyses support.
- Maintain a comprehensive, integrated technical perspective of the development effort across all lifecycle phases and products in supporting that lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for C2 National Team.
- Perform thorough technical reviews of products.
- Create and/or review team positions and make recommendations.
- Mentor and provide technical direction to team members and partnering organizations.
- Supervise team Lead Engineers from partnering organizations.
- Provide overarching technical prioritization for work efforts and review work plans for consistency with those priorities.
- Provide initial leadership for emergent tasks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s or PhD degree in related STEM discipline.
- Expert level programming skills in languages such as C, C++, Python, FORTRAN.
- Expertise in C2BMC or related command and control systems.
- Familiarity with tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.
- Current, active TS/SCI or SAP clearance.
- Leadership experience in a customer-facing organization.
- The ability to communicate effectively with management, program offices, customers, contractors, and colleagues is essential.
- Experience leading technical teams, and mentoring junior staff.
- Experience in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving technical issues.
- Knowledge of government space mission architectures and mission-effects chains involving multi-target tracking architectures.
- Knowledge of extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter, batch filter, Gauss Von Mises, track filtering/fusion, kinematic model selection, correlation and association.
- Demonstrated strength in architecture and sensor-level simulations and evaluation, mission performance assessments with emphasis in multi-target tracking, detection, and estimation.