Tracking Architecture Performance Engineer - Member of the Technical Staff

The Aerospace Corporation • El Segundo, CA

18h • Onsite

About The Position

The Aerospace Corporation’s Enterprise Effects Division integrates strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. Its Tracking Architecture and Performance Department conducts model-based analyses of tracking performance across architecture scenarios in nominal and contested operating environments. The department supports customers through concept development, engineering analysis, algorithm development, and evaluation of tracking performance for radar, electro-optical, infrared, electronic warfare, space domain awareness, and missile warning/missile tracking applications across single- and multi-intelligence architectures. Its mission focus includes missile defense, space domain awareness, and surveillance architectures. Its modeling, simulation, and analysis products include architecture evaluations, what-if analyses, and the development, tuning, and optimization of multi-sensor tracking algorithms.

The Tracking Architecture Performance Engineer performs modeling and analysis of missile warning, missile tracking, and missile defense sensors and systems, as well as their broader system-of-systems architectures. The role uses in-house, custom, commercial, and government-provided modeling tools to evaluate sensor concepts, architectures, and algorithms; develops and implements tracking algorithms; improves modeling and simulation tools; and creates computer tools and simulations for interdisciplinary analysis and systems engineering trade assessments.

This position is 100% onsite in El Segundo, California, or Colorado Springs, Colorado. The role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• At least 1 year of applicable educational or professional experience with space systems or algorithms.
• Experience with physics-based state models and state estimation techniques.
• Programming experience in MATLAB, C, C++, Java, Python, or FORTRAN.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in a related STEM discipline.
• Current, active TS/SCI or SAP clearance.
• Experience researching, developing, and applying advanced and innovative algorithm-development techniques.
• Experience with tracking, detection, and state estimation.
• Experience with Kalman filters, orbit determination, orbital mechanics, radars, space infrared sensors, or space optical systems.
• Experience developing and delivering presentations and leading small groups.
• Experience working autonomously on complex projects.
• Software design, development, unit testing, and integration experience.
• Practice in robust statistics and decision logic.

Responsibilities

• Perform modeling and analysis of missile warning, missile tracking, and missile defense sensors and systems, and their broader system-of-systems architectures.
• Conduct analyses using modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities, including in-house, custom, commercially available, and government-provided tools.
• Analyze the performance of electro-optical, radar, and passive radio frequency sensor concepts, architectures, and algorithms.
• Develop and implement radar, lidar, and/or related tracking algorithms and help improve existing modeling and simulation tools.
• Develop computer tools and simulations to support analyses by interdisciplinary support teams.
• Perform general and specific systems engineering trade assessments.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level