Casual Risk and Reliability Engineer /Sr. Risk and Reliability Engineer
About The Position
The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Risk and Reliability Engineer at the Engineering Specialist or Senior Engineering Specialist level within the Acquisition Risk and Reliability Engineering Department. The role supports national security and civil space customers across multiple programs, developing reliable space-based systems and identifying and mitigating hazards throughout the system lifecycle in accordance with MIL-STD-882E principles. The engineer will help government customers plan and execute risk and reliability activities, provide system safety and reliability guidance and analysis, and conduct assessments that inform senior decision-makers. The role may serve as the subject matter expert and point of contact for risk, reliability, or system safety across several programs, and may lead small teams. The successful candidate will also contribute to evolving departmental capabilities and approaches to meet changing space-industry and customer needs. The selected candidate must work full time on-site at the facility in El Segundo, California, or Chantilly, Virginia, and be willing to travel approximately 10% of the time. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, reliability engineering, systems engineering, or a similar field from a recognized institution.
- At least 10 years of experience in risk, reliability, and/or system safety for the Engineering Specialist level.
- At least 12 years of experience in risk, reliability, or systems safety for the Senior Engineering Specialist level.
- Strong communication skills to convey insights and recommendations effectively.
- Ability to work both independently and as a team member.
- Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time to a work location or customer site.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- For the Senior Engineering Specialist level: ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers.
- For the Senior Engineering Specialist level: ability to train and mentor junior staff.
- For the Senior Engineering Specialist level: ability to build customer and colleague relationships through effective delivery, supporting expansion or development of work for the candidate and team.
Nice To Haves
- Airworthiness experience.
- Master’s or Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, reliability engineering, systems engineering, or a similar field from a recognized institution.
- 12 or more years of increasingly responsible experience in risk, reliability, systems safety, systems engineering, and/or mission assurance.
- Experience working with the U.S. Space Force, NASA, NRO, FAA, or other government agencies involved in the Space Enterprise.
- Experience leading technical teams, tracking project progress, proposing and implementing project schedules, budgets, and resources, and communicating project needs.
- Understanding of statistics and their application to evaluating failures and anomalies.
- Experience applying system safety engineering and management principles and techniques to achieve acceptable mishap risk within lifecycle time, cost, and mission-effectiveness constraints.
- Expertise in reliability analysis, including software reliability, reliability testing, reliability modeling and prediction, failure analysis, root cause analysis, FMEA, FTA, PRA, and FRACAS.
- Familiarity with DoD standards and guidance on risk, reliability, and system safety, including MIL-STD-882E, MIL-HDBK-217F, MIL-STD-1629, and the NASA System Safety Handbook.
- Ability to lead small technical teams in producing analytical products and communicating findings and recommendations to senior leadership on time and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Help Department of Defense, intelligence community, NASA, and other government customers plan and execute risk and reliability activities.
- Provide risk, reliability, and system safety guidance and analysis for national security space and ground systems.
- Work with program office customers to perform assessments that provide insights to senior decision-makers.
- Lead small teams to accomplish assignments.
- Serve as a risk, reliability, and/or system safety subject matter expert and point of contact for assessments and guidance across multiple programs.
- Engage with other subject matter experts to deliver assessments for senior program managers.
- Help shape risk and reliability capabilities and develop approaches for new space architectures in response to changing industry and customer needs.
- Deliver timely assessments that enable senior leaders to make risk-informed decisions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans.
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
- Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options.
- 401(k) plan with company-paid benefits of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service, plus matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested upon hire.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Variable pay program for exceptional contributions.
- Relocation assistance.
- Professional growth and development programs.
- Education assistance programs.
- Inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
