2027 RPO Software Developer/Analyst
The Aerospace Corporation2 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USA +2 moreEntry Level
Base Salary
$100k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement flight-dynamics tools for internal capabilities and customer deliverables.
- Design software architectures and integrate new workflows to meet customer needs.
- Engage users and customers to refine capability requirements.
- Combine AI/ML/RL techniques with flight-mechanics modeling to assess analysis and decision-making trade spaces.
- Develop CONOPS and explore TTPs while incorporating operational constraints into space-system design.
- Evaluate contested-space mission applications, system vulnerabilities, and operational concepts.
- Translate customer mission requirements into technical solutions and analysis products with multidisciplinary teams.
- Travel occasionally to customer and contractor facilities, approximately 10% domestically.
Requirements
- An MS degree in computer science, software engineering, aerospace engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field, either being pursued or conferred within the last 12 months.
- Zero to one year of industry experience.
- Proficiency in C++ for software architecture, performance optimization, and algorithm development.
- Proficiency in Python for API design, module integration, and user-interface development.
- Experience with modern software development, integration, and testing practices in team environments using configuration-management and collaboration tools.
- Experience in at least one relevant area, such as space mission analysis and design, astrodynamics, spacecraft RPO trajectory simulation, orbit determination, state estimation, relative navigation, algorithm design, or mathematical modeling.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- Transcripts are required.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant PhD, numerical methods and physics-based analysis software experience, graduate-level relevant coursework or research, contested-space or military-exercise experience, and an active TS/SCI or TS/SAP clearance.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in El Segundo, California; Chantilly, Virginia; or Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- In-person work model with four or more regular onsite workdays per week and remote flexibility as business needs allow.
- Domestic travel to customer and contractor facilities is approximately 10%.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans.
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
- Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options.
- 401(k) plan with company-paid contributions based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested upon hire.
- Flexible spending accounts and a variable pay program for exceptional contributions.
- Relocation assistance.
- Professional growth, development, and education assistance programs.
- Inclusive work environment focused on teamwork, flexibility, and respect.
About The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit operator of a federally funded research and development center, providing independent systems engineering, research, and mission assurance for U.S. government space programs. It supports defense, civil, and some commercial customers across satellites, launch vehicles, ground systems, remote sensing, and cyber. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it advises on acquisition, design, testing, and operations to improve reliability of national security space systems.