Jobs at Ares Corporation

Review, test, and certify flight termination system hardware and electronics for launch vehicle operations. Ensure compliance with NASA, MIL-STD, FAA, and mission requirements while supporting safety-critical aerospace programs. Responsibilities include RF and command destruct system evaluation, environmental testing, reliability and fault-tolerance assessment, design reviews, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Manages government prime contracts and subcontracts, including contract administration, drafting, review, negotiation, execution, compliance, and interpretation. Reviews customer terms, manages contract changes, coordinates internal and external communications, and resolves contractual issues. Requires knowledge of FAR, DFARS, Cost Plus contracts, federal contract formation, proposal preparation, and government contracting practices.

Provides technical expertise for developing, implementing, managing, and supporting IT systems and networks. Responsibilities include evaluating and optimizing IT services, managing data access, maintaining security knowledge, supporting infrastructure and videoconferencing, leading IT projects, onboarding and offboarding employees, and controlling IT assets. The role also serves as the IT point of contact for designated organizations and requires strong troubleshooting, communication, organizational, and independent-work skills.

Provides NASA-wide earned value management expertise, including surveillance, compliance reviews, integrated baseline reviews, systems administration, policy maintenance, training, reporting, database management, and stakeholder communications. Supports contractor and in-house projects, agency-level initiatives, working groups, conferences, and EVM software platforms while maintaining guidance, documentation, and training curricula.

Engineer Microsoft Teams Rooms systems in NASA-managed collaboration spaces. Responsibilities include designing, installing, configuring, testing, documenting, and supporting room hardware and networks; performing acceptance testing, risk assessments, standards reviews, lifecycle planning, and hardware evaluations; coordinating with stakeholders; producing technical documentation and training materials; and traveling for installations, site surveys, meetings, and acceptance activities.

Engineer Microsoft Teams Rooms collaboration systems for NASA-managed spaces, including system design, installation, configuration, testing, documentation, lifecycle planning, and acceptance. The role evaluates hardware, develops engineering plans, supports facility and network requirements, maintains standards, manages multiple projects, and communicates with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Travel is required as needed for installations, site surveys, meetings, and center visits.

Manage risk identification, mitigation planning, progress tracking, documentation, and reporting for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program. Facilitate risk review forums, prepare presentations and status reports, track action items, advise leaders on escalation, and support risk repository management. The role collaborates with project managers, systems engineers, and organizational leads in a matrixed aerospace environment.

Develops and manages enterprise architecture frameworks aligned with organizational mission and IT strategy. Responsibilities include architecture modeling, gap analysis, transition planning, governance, portfolio management, cybersecurity policy application, systems integration, stakeholder guidance, Agile execution support, and Service-Oriented Architecture advisory. The role supports space, intelligence, cyber, missile defense, and related mission systems, using tools such as DoDAF, Sparx EA, Cameo, MATLAB, Simulink, and AFSIM.

Supports NASA program planning and control through cost estimating, scheduling, risk and performance analysis, contractor proposal evaluation, and program assessments. Develops life-cycle cost estimates, EACs, IGEs, ROM estimates, and change request analyses; maintains schedule data and evaluates critical paths. Integrates cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic information to identify trends and risks, then prepares briefings, reports, and recommendations for NASA stakeholders. Requires onsite support at Johnson Space Center.

Coordinates enterprise broadcast production and event activities supporting NASA. Provides administrative support to managers, including scheduling, meeting documentation, action tracking, reporting, purchasing, property and inventory records, travel coordination, vendor communication, logistics, badging, and contract documentation. The role requires strong organization, communication, Microsoft Office and collaboration-platform proficiency, and the ability to manage multiple priorities across distributed teams.

Leads enterprise systems engineering, integration, requirements, architecture, testing, verification, and validation across complex aerospace programs. Serves as a technical authority, guides multidisciplinary teams, manages risks, mentors engineers, drives MBSE and digital engineering adoption, and communicates with executives, customers, vendors, and program stakeholders. The role supports production-floor integration, flight hardware lifecycle and certification, mission-level architecture studies, and cross-program capability initiatives.

Designs, installs, configures, tests, documents, and supports Microsoft Teams Rooms and complete audio/video collaboration systems in NASA-managed spaces. Responsibilities include systems analysis, hardware evaluation, network and device enrollment, standards maintenance, lifecycle planning, engineering documentation, acceptance testing, project reporting, stakeholder communication, and facility coordination. The role also evaluates custom room designs, supports modernization and security requirements, and travels as needed for installations, site surveys, meetings, and acceptance activities.

Supports system safety for ULA’s Centaur V upper stage and NASA Artemis missions. Develops hazard reports, safety analyses, requirements compliance documentation, and risk mitigations across vehicle, ground, and range interfaces. Evaluates avionics, AFSS architecture, fault tolerance, and human-rating requirements. Coordinates NASA and range safety reviews, presents safety rationale, and closes review findings.

Develops, manages, integrates, and optimizes NASA-compliant project schedules across the program lifecycle. Performs schedule health assessments, metrics, trend and risk analyses, probabilistic schedule risk analysis, what-if analyses, and critical path evaluations. Prepares status packages, integrates contractor and sub-tier schedules into Integrated Master Schedules, supports resource allocation, and provides scheduling guidance. Leads schedulers and collaborates with technical stakeholders and NASA programs to maintain schedule visibility and performance.

Conduct cybersecurity control, vulnerability, software assurance, threat, and risk assessments for complex ballistic missile defense systems. Perform research, data gathering, gap analysis, and capability maturity assessments; develop cybersecurity implementation plans and documentation. Support vulnerability assessments, control development, penetration testing, security planning, and Risk Management Framework activities while applying cybersecurity standards and assessment tools.

Creates graphics, illustrations, branding, presentations, templates, reports, and environmental or exhibit designs for NASA communications. Translates complex information into clear visual materials, develops brand guidelines, collaborates with clients, manages multiple deadlines, presents concepts, and incorporates feedback. Requires advanced Adobe Creative Cloud expertise, large-format and print production experience, accessibility knowledge, strong communication, and a portfolio demonstrating sophisticated design solutions. Basic motion graphics experience is preferred.

Develop and maintain full-stack web applications onsite for NASA’s Artemis Exploration Ground Systems Program. Responsibilities include designing SQL Server data models, developing .NET/C# APIs, building Angular and PrimeNG interfaces, testing, debugging, database administration, GitHub-based source control, documentation, user training, and stakeholder demonstrations. The role collaborates with systems engineers and management to translate requirements into technical solutions and support project milestones.

Develop and maintain simulation scenarios, analytical tools, and applications supporting aerospace defense warning and assessment systems. Analyze requirements, write and test software, develop scientific and mathematical models, support agile development, document verification and validation activities, and present results. The role interfaces with government stakeholders, vendors, test personnel, and operational organizations while supporting DevSecOps, databases, virtualization, and containerization across mission-critical systems.

Provide independent systems engineering oversight for defense software modernization programs. Review architectures, requirements, verification and validation plans, trade studies, system integration, deficiencies, configuration management, and major technical reviews. Support system-of-systems integration and advise Government stakeholders across the acquisition lifecycle, including ensuring compliance with MOSA principles and managing technical risks in a multi-contractor environment.

Creates 3D models and technical drawings for LH2 and LO2 cryogenic vacuum-jacketed piping systems supporting NASA’s Artemis ground systems program. Maintains drawing configuration control and release processes using Creo Parametric 3D and KDDMS, works independently to meet deadlines, communicates technical status, and supports schedule-driven spacecraft processing activities, including variable shifts and weekends.