Jobs at Space Dynamics Laboratory

Develop proposal cost estimates and budgets by translating program resources and schedules into financial plans. Track, analyze, report, and forecast costs for internal projects and externally funded programs. Collaborate with program managers, engineers, schedulers, contract administrators, and other teams to support program planning, execution, and contractual requirements.

Provides senior technical leadership for missile defense systems across requirements, architecture, integration, verification, testing, fielding, and operations. Evaluates complex system-of-systems capabilities involving command and control, sensors, weapons, communications, networks, software, and modeling. Advises government and program leadership, oversees contractor performance, assesses risks and emerging technologies, supports classified projects, and mentors multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Leads force-design and complex systems analysis for Space Data Network architectures supporting the USSF Global SATCOM mission. Manages multidisciplinary teams, customer and partner relationships, deliverables, schedules, trade-offs, and risks. Develops and presents technical findings to senior military, government, and industry audiences. Requires extensive national security space and satellite communications experience, active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and onsite work in Colorado Springs.

Leads systems engineering for mission-critical C4ISR and defense programs, including design reviews, requirements decomposition and traceability, interface management, interdisciplinary coordination, risk analysis, CONOPS development, integration, verification, and testing. Owns the SEMP and supports configuration management while advising program leadership and mentoring engineers. The role requires broad engineering knowledge, military and aerospace standards experience, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Designs and implements secure, scalable data infrastructure for intelligence weapons systems. Responsibilities include translating requirements into data models and pipelines, integrating multiple data sources, monitoring and optimizing workflows, documenting data processes, and supporting data architecture. The role requires advanced SQL, Python, data modeling, pipeline operations, and collaboration with government customers and cross-functional teams.

Leads information systems security and cybersecurity compliance for classified systems. Responsibilities include RMF and NIST compliance, risk assessments, vulnerability management, SIEM tuning, incident response, continuous monitoring, ATO readiness, security documentation, policy development, audit preparation, reporting, and coordination with technical teams and government agencies. The role requires maintaining cybersecurity controls, advising leadership, and supporting secure network and system operations.

Manages technical program execution for U.S. Air Force C4ISR and intercontinental ballistic missile systems customers. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams, defines tasking, manages resources, tracks and mitigates risks, balances scope, cost, approach, and schedule, and delivers contracted outcomes. The role requires technical understanding of software, networking, hardware, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity, plus customer engagement, supervisory experience, and government-clearance eligibility.

Leads optical alignment, testing, metrology, error budgeting, and integration of UV, visible, and infrared space electro-optical systems. Develops alignment plans, conducts trade studies, supports calibration and verification, manages optical vendors, investigates new project feasibility, and mentors engineers. The role collaborates across mechanical, electrical, systems, contamination, calibration, and quality disciplines, while leading technical reviews, proposals, and small engineering teams.

Leads multidisciplinary systems engineering across the lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, integration, verification, validation, testing, risk, interfaces, and configuration management. Coordinates technical teams, advises leadership, supports planning and estimates, manages stakeholder relationships, contributes to reviews and proposals, and mentors engineers. The role supports advanced satellite and sensor systems for national security missions.

Performs multidisciplinary systems engineering across the lifecycle, including requirements development, architecture, interface management, trade studies, risk and configuration management, integration, verification, validation, and testing. Coordinates technical execution across engineering teams, maintains technical baselines and traceability, supports reviews, and communicates recommendations, risks, and status to stakeholders. The role supports satellite and sensor systems for national security missions.

Leads assembly, integration, and testing capabilities for spacecraft, payloads, and aeroshell vehicles. Develops AI&T plans, test procedures, verification reports, and system-level requirements. Manages facility resources, classified logistics, procurement, calibration, configuration control, technical risks, and program reporting. Coordinates engineers, technicians, government program managers, and technical teams across hardware, software, thermal, structural, optical, and electrical domains.

Leads multidisciplinary systems engineering for satellite ground systems, including architecture, requirements, integration, verification, testing, risk management, configuration control, and technical baselines. Coordinates software, hardware, and support teams; evaluates vendors; advises management and government customers; supports proposals and business development; and drives resolution of complex technical and programmatic challenges. The role requires extensive satellite and ground-system experience, systems engineering expertise, leadership, U.S. citizenship, clearance eligibility, and travel as needed.

Provides software and systems engineering expertise for complex Air Force training systems. Responsibilities include overseeing software architecture, requirements development and verification, system integration, risk mitigation, threat and vulnerability assessments, secure software architecture, testing, and technical documentation. The role collaborates with government customers, engineering teams, and corporate partners while supporting defense software design, certification, and deployment in containerized and potentially air-gapped environments.

Designs, analyzes, tests, troubleshoots, and debugs electronics boards and subsystems for satellites and space-based sensors. The engineer takes designs from concept through launch, leads design reviews, supports digital and analog laboratory testing, manages multiple priorities, and collaborates with engineering teams serving defense and intelligence missions.

Supports AFRL satellite missions as part of a government-contractor team. Responsibilities span SmallSat systems engineering, documentation, analysis, fabrication, integration, testing, launch, and operations. The role requires multidisciplinary knowledge across engineering and science fields, systems engineering tools, technical problem-solving, communication, and collaboration. Some travel may be required.

Leads end-to-end NASA and civil space missions from formulation and proposal capture through spacecraft and payload development, integration, testing, launch, and mission operations. Owns technical, cost, schedule, risk, customer, and partner outcomes while directing multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams. Responsibilities include mission architecture, proposal development, NASA lifecycle reviews, customer engagement, partner coordination, EVMS, risk mitigation, contractual execution, and mentoring project managers.

Leads complex software programs supporting satellite ground operations and national security missions. Manages cross-functional teams, lifecycle execution, budgets, schedules, risks, quality, integration, testing, stakeholder communication, and compliance. The role oversees TT&C, mission planning, automation, and data processing capabilities while reporting program status to leadership and government customers. It also supports Agile or hybrid delivery, proposal efforts, subcontractor evaluation, and technical writing.

Leads multidisciplinary systems engineering for satellite ground-system solutions, including architecture, requirements, integration, verification, testing, risk management, configuration control, and technical baselines. Coordinates software, hardware, vendors, and support teams while advising management, program managers, and government customers. The role also provides technical leadership for complex national-security space programs, supports proposals and business development, and ensures successful execution across technical, cost, schedule, and program objectives.

Provides systems engineering expertise for complex defense training systems, including software architecture assessment, requirements development and verification, system integration, risk mitigation, secure software analysis, testing strategy, and technical documentation. Works with government customers, multiple engineering disciplines, and corporate partners to ensure interoperable, certifiable designs. The role is based in Ogden, Utah, requires U.S. citizenship, eligibility for a government security clearance, and frequent travel to customer facilities.

Designs aerospace structures, subsystems, and space hardware from concept through delivery. Creates CAD models, design documentation, bills of materials, procedures, and technical presentations; leads design reviews and collaborates across engineering, manufacturing, procurement, analysis, and program management teams. Develops requirements, resolves technical issues, manages task schedules, mentors engineers, and supports testing and customer engagement.