Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Engineer

The Enterprise Effects Division (EED) drives integration of Aerospace’s strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The division leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a dynamic portfolio of programs, customers, and national challenges. EED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space-enabled mission effects. 

As a member of the Cross-Mission Effectiveness Department, you will provide technical capabilities to support our customers in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) of space, air, and ground-based systems of systems to investigate architecture and concept of operations (CONOPS) performance in nominal and contested operating environments. MS&A focus areas include agent-based modeling, red vs blue simulations, military utility and capability drawdown, killchain effectiveness, enterprise architecture resiliency, and command and control (C2) evaluation. We support a variety of customers with diverse program portfolios, and we are looking for curious and innovative teammates to help us address our customers’ hardest problems! 

This 100% onsite position can be filled in either our El Segundo, CA or Chantilly, VA offices. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Represent the Cross-Mission Effectiveness Department as a technical authority in your area(s) of expertise.    

• Independently lead and contribute to technical analysis projects to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent team deliveries. 

• Exercise your expertise in understanding, modeling, and analyzing enterprise-level integrated missions. 

• Use and contribute to the development of in-house and commercial/government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools and analysis products.   

• Develop and present briefings and reports for program offices and customers.   

• Mentor junior staff members on technical and professional development subjects and contribute to a learning environment where it is encouraged to share ideas and feedback.   

• Travel occasionally as required.   

What You Need to be Successful 

Minimum Requirements:    

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (aerospace, astronautical, mechanical, electrical, or software), computer science, physics, operations research, or closely related technical field from an accredited school.   

• 5 or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments.   

• Technical understanding of space operations, red vs blue simulations, military utility and capability drawdown, killchain effectiveness, enterprise architecture resiliency, and/or command and control (C2). 

• Experience in one or more of the following: space systems, space surveillance, spacecraft ground systems, communications infrastructure, command and control (C2), spacecraft maneuvering, space protection, or space-driven killchains.    

• Experience with multi-phenomenology remote sensing techniques such as EOIR and radar signal processing, especially in the context of object detection, characterization, tracking, and estimation. 

• Experience with one or more software languages that may include Python, C++, or MATLAB.    

• Experience leading a team to accomplish an objective.    

• Ability to work on dynamic assignments and adapt to changing customer expectations.   

• Excellent interpersonal skills with effective oral and written communication skills.   

• Current Top Secret clearance.     

How You Can Stand Out  

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these: 

• An advanced degree in an applicable STEM area or other relevant discipline. 

• Experience modeling the space domain using a toolkit or framework such as AFSIM, STK, or GMAT. 

• Direct experience with agent-based modeling, red vs blue simulations, military utility and capability drawdown analysis, killchain effectiveness, enterprise architecture resiliency, and/or command and control (C2. 

• Knowledge of Intelligence Community, Department of War, and/or Department of the Air Force business practices and programs. 

• Experience briefing senior government leaders. 

• Current Top Secret clearance with SCI access and polygraph.