Senior Microelectronics Industrial Base Engineer And Advisor

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration – to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.

The Defense Strategic Space Directorate at The Aerospace Corporation has an opening for a highly motivated Microelectronics Industrial Base Senior Engineer and Advisor to support an exquisite group of hand-selected personnel—tasked by the highest levels within the Department of Defense—to help ensure the DoD is prepared for the future by strengthening the domestic microelectronics Defense Industrial Base, and by developing and transitioning groundbreaking microelectronics technology into our systems. As part of this team, you will be ultimately responsible for shaping the future supply chain of the Department, as well as the Nation. As a member of this group, the successful applicant will participate in identifying key focus areas to improve the Department’s ability to source and use microelectronics vital to sustain programs and coordinate with, and support as needed, interagency efforts on bringing manufacturing and part, or all of the supply chain back to our own shores. The diverse charter and goals will provide the motivated applicant considerable opportunity for the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and participating as a key member of team responsible for making a difference and changing the Department’s future. 

This is a hybrid position based in Crystal City, VA. The candidate should expect to work up to an estimated 4 out of 5 days of in-office work. 

What You’ll Be Doing  

• Acts as senior technical authority, consultant, primary investigator, or team leader. May lead or organize interfaces between customers' and Aerospace technical and management staff. Coordinates large-scale technical efforts across program/project lines. 

• Develop near, mid and long-term objectives that improve the Department’s assured access to secure microelectronics necessary to sustain current and future programs of record 

• Assemble, understand, and evaluate the current status of DoD, interagency, and industry microelectronics efforts including non-defense unique commercial microelectronics 

• Develop and support current-year initiatives for potential reprogramming, as coordinated with the comptroller and other senior government officials 

• Author future-year issue papers for consideration in the program reviews 

• Help  the team understand resource requirements and appropriate planning and programming documents to establish current and future microelectronics funding needs, including out year funding requirements 

• Coordinate with Military Departments, other DoD Components on congressional requirements and notifications relating to the team’s initiatives 

• Collaborate and integrate across organizational and functional boundaries in DoD, among other U.S. departments and agencies, and with industry to sustain key expertise, infrastructure, production sources and reduce cost/risk resulting from reliance on foreign components, diminishing manufacturing sources, materiel shortages, and counterfeit parts 

• Recommend comprehensive and fully integrated policies, strategies, plans and resourcing decisions 

• Help  craft the plan for monitoring the implementation of approved policies, strategies, plans, and resourcing decisions approved by the Secretary of Defense 

• Contribute to the overall framework for implementing a microelectronic strategy across the DoD 

What You Need to be Successful  

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field or other appropriate subject area 

• 10 or more years of increasingly responsible profession engineering/scientific experience, including microelectronics programs in the areas of design, verification, fabrication, packaging, technology node access, integrity, trust, and assurance 

• Demonstrated and proven experience dealing with both industry and government specific to microelectronics 

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret clearance, issued from the US government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a secu