Cross-Mission Effectiveness Engineering Manager

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 diverse and 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 an Engineering Manager of a section of CMED, you will lead teams that 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 in our CMED sections 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 position is onsite at either Aerospace's Chantilly or Colorado Springs location with some limited hybrid (telework) opportunities.

Your technical leadership responsibilities will include:

• Influence government customers by serving as integration leader for the section's modeling and simulation capabilities.

• Translate program office needs into modeling, simulation, and analysis project plans and tasks.

• Initiate and participate in collaboration opportunities across program offices and interdisciplinary technical organizations to achieve innovative solutions and optimal efficiencies.

• Use and contribute to the development of in-house and commercial- and government-off-the-shelf engineering analysis tools and analysis products.

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

Your people management responsibilities will include:

• Build and maintain a strong base of customers and collaborators for the section through effective working relationships with colleagues, government customers, and contractor teammates.

• Identify, coordinate, and assign work activities for direct reports and facilitate timely completion of these efforts.

• Effectively communicate and manage conflict and competing priorities.

• Develop staff through formal and informal performance management, evaluation, mentoring/coaching, and tasking.

• Lead full-time staff and student intern recruiting, hiring, and onboarding efforts.

• Review section work products for quality and accuracy.

• Promote sharing and exchange of knowledge and information enterprise-wide.

• Assist the management team in formulating and implementing department strategy and other business functions.

• Travel occasionally as required.

What You Need to be Successful - Engineering Manager - Modeling & Simulation Engineering

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in in engineering (aerospace, astronautical, mechanical, or software), computer science, physics, operations research, or closely related technical field from an accredited school.

• 6 years of progressively more responsible engineering experience.

• Technical understanding of astrodynamics, space operations, and system/architecture threat and resiliency concepts.

• Experience Python, C++ or other programing languages.

• Ability to form and lead highly productive intra- and inter- organizational teams.

• Ability to work in a dynamic environment under ambiguous and fluctuating customer expectations.

• Ability to identify, prioritize, and delegate tasks.

• Excellent interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of customers and staff.

• Current Top Secret Clearance.

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• An advanced degree in applicable STEM areas or other relevant disciplines.

• Experience in end-to-end, enterprise-level analysis and understanding of space mission interdependencies.

• Expertise with the following: communications infrastructure, command and control (C2), space surveillance, spacecraft ground systems, multi-phenomenology remote sensing techniques, spacecraft maneuvering, threats, or space-driven kill-chains.

• Proficiency with the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM).

• Experience modeling the space domain in AFSIM and/or integrating external tools with AFSIM.

• Knowledge of Intelligence Community, U.S. Department of Defense, and Department of the Air Force business practices and programs.

• Experience with any of the following: Digital Engineering, including modern software development methodologies, tools, processes, and hardware, distributed frameworks, automated workflows with CI/CD, and cloud computing

• Experience in a people management role.

• Current Top Secret/SCI Clearance with polygraph and special programs access.