The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Manager, Vehicle Software Architecture and Design to provide technical oversight throughout the flight software development process and ensure the appropriate mix of staff knowledge, skills, and experience to support vehicle onboard software architecture and design.
Requirements
- Three or more years of increasingly responsible engineering experience in one or more of the following technical areas: vehicle software design/development/testing, modeling and simulation of aerospace vehicles, space systems software verification and validation.
- Practical experience and knowledge in software requirements analysis.
- Practical experience and knowledge in MBSE and SysML.
- Practical experience and knowledge in agile software development methods.
- Experience in aerospace vehicle/real-time flight software design, development, testing, and support.
- Knowledge of guidance, navigation, and controls; robotics; electro-mechanical devices; embedded systems; fluid mechanics; propulsion; thermal control; mechanisms; structures; structural dynamics; and dynamic environments.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
Responsibilities
- Providing guidance and leadership to a technical staff responsible for supporting vehicle onboard software architecture and design.
- Ensuring the appropriate mix of staff knowledge, skills, and experience through hiring and staff development.
- Networking and building relationships with our NSS launch, spacecraft, and civil & commercial program offices and customers.
- Helping to develop and execute department strategies with impactful benefit up the organizational hierarchy.
- Fostering technological advancement and innovation through research and technical investment proposals.
- Developing high-fidelity, closed-loop test beds to run the software and evaluate its ability to execute critical mission functions as expected.
- Providing mission assurance through software independent verification and validation for many national security space, as well as civil and commercial, programs.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field is required.
- Ability to develop and lead engineering teams focused on contributing to organizational capabilities, strategies, and goals.
- Ability to contribute to the formulation and execution of organizational strategies that place the department as a key contributor to enterprise-level objectives.
- Strong skills in efficient and effective communication of relevant information, including verbal presentations and written reports.
- Willing to travel to contractor or customer sites if required.
