Orbit Analyst and Space Application Modeling

SAIC • Chantilly, VA

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About The Position

SAIC is seeking an individual for an Orbit Analyst and Space Application Modeling role to join the Air Force, Space and Intel Business Group. This group provides specialized program management, engineering, analysis and operations support to a variety of Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) customers. You would support the cutting-edge programs in national security-related systems based in space, in the air and on the ground.

This Orbit Analyst and Space Modeling role will work in a collaborative team-focused environment in prototyping, designing, and integrating tools which will be used in modeling and simulating space vehicle missions. This position will help progress and advance current and future concepts to inform missions and potential acquisitions. Your role will be to provide expertise and proficiency to develop algorithms, support modeling and simulation efforts and provide orbit analytic skills to conduct analyses to support physics-based modeling for space mission applications. This position is in direct support to the community’s space situational awareness mission.

Requirements

• Expertise and proficiency to develop algorithms
• Support modeling and simulation efforts
• Orbit analytic skills to conduct analyses to support physics-based modeling for space mission applications
• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software algorithms (e.g. processing-intensive analytics, novel process development, manipulation of large data sets)
• Create new tools and applications using a variety of software languages, frameworks, and libraries
• Code, test, and maintain internally developed mathematical software tools

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of mission data applicable to space domain missions to promote awareness and understanding about threat behaviors and system vulnerabilities
• Formulate and interpret problems in mathematical or computational terms
• Design, develop, use, and evaluate mathematical models, methods, and algorithm applications to explore concepts and solve problems in the area of orbit dynamics and data analytics
• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software algorithms (e.g. processing-intensive analytics, novel process development, manipulation of large data sets)
• Advance and progress space-based models for integration into simulation scenarios
• Research analysis products and tools for possible integration to enhance Modeling & Simulation framework
• Create new tools and applications using a variety of software languages, frameworks, and libraries
• Improve, support, and test a Modeling & Simulation framework to support other team members’ analytic work
• Refine and enhance existing applications to better meet the customer’s mission
• Code, test, and maintain internally developed mathematical software tools

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed