Senior Software Architect for Modeling and Simulation
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
|---|---|
| Location | Chantilly, VA, USA, El Segundo, CA, USA |
| Salary | $151300 – $226900 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM
- 8 years of related and progressive experience
- Experience in designing modern software architectures
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead of a software project
- Proficiency in developing software updates and understanding how they fit into the larger software structure as part of a team working to deliver complex projects on schedule
- Proficiency in one or more of the organization’s core computer languages such as Python or C++
- Experience leveraging software configuration management and collaboration tools in team environments (Bitbucket, Jira, GitHub, or similar)
- Experience in building technical proficiency through mentoring and talent development initiatives
- Ability to communicate effectively through technical writing and presentations
- Willing to travel occasionally to corporate or customer locations to support efforts as needed
- This position requires 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
Responsibilities
- Act as a department senior liaison, providing proactive coordination and consultation to customers and Aerospace staff across the company; specifically, lead software architecture design teams for elements of the corporation’s effort to modernize major software workflows for high performance and cloud computing on internal and external compute resources.
- Initiate and conduct efforts to grow and sustain our modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities to support new and existing functional areas including digital engineering and cloud computing
- Apply leadership and coordination across multi-disciplinary technical leaders, Aerospace Program Office personnel, and external customers.
- Partner with analysis leads to exercise influence on key stakeholders and customers by leading engagement efforts as we modernize our modeling and simulation workflows.
- Support organizational and capability strategic planning, identifying opportunities to leverage development and analysis across various projects and analysis types while suggesting ways to close capability gaps.
- Engage with software end users and customers to refine capability requirements.
- Mature technical expertise in the department through mentoring team members and directing workflow development.
- Routinely communicate project progress, including recommended design solutions to technical leads, management, and customers.
- Travel as necessary to support customer efforts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in STEM
- Experience in space domain modeling, simulation, and analysis
- Experience with Aerospace customers and industry players
- Experience with agent-based modeling tools such as AFSIM (Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling)
- Current TS/SCI or higher security clearance