Enterprise Kill Chain M&S Staff Analyst

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.

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.  

 The Cross-Mission Effectiveness Department (CMED) in the Integrated Performance Subdivision leads integration and application of modeling and simulation capabilities and modern analysis workflows to support end-to-end effects chain analysis and space and space-enabled campaign modeling. As a member of CMED, 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!   

Work Model:   

This is a full-time, 100% onsite position located in either El Segundo, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, or Chantilly, VA. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Advancing our software solutions for modeling and simulation applications  

• Leveraging modern tech stack and enforcing best practices in modern software development and maintainability  

• Assisting in converting programmatic requirements into actionable work  

• Work closely with our cross-mission focused program offices and customers to translate their program needs into modeling, simulation, and analysis tasks.   

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

• Travel occasionally as required.   

What You Need to be Successful – Member of Technical Staff - Signal & Image Processing and Modeling & Simulation Engineering  

Minimum Requirements:    

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree from an accredited program in computer science, electrical engineering, optical engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field  

• Two or more years of experience in modern software development using a systems software language   

• Proficiency in C++, preferably in C++20  

• Comfortable working with and following a large code base in C++  

• Experience with Python