Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Vandenberg SFB, California, United States; onsite

Salary: $85,000–$110,000 per year, depending on relevant experience, location, and other factors.

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace engineering and information technology firm providing engineering services and product development for civilian and military aerospace programs.

What you will do

• Solve operational orbital mechanics problems and process orbit-state and prediction data.
• Coordinate information and findings across functional areas to develop products supporting customer situational awareness and decisions.
• Contribute to conjunction assessment, proximity operations, and other orbit-analysis tasks.
• Perform real-time analysis and resolve technical and operational problems.
• Work outside normal business hours when required for crew operations.

Requirements

• US citizenship is required.
• Must be eligible for and willing to complete a background investigation and application for a TS/SCI security clearance.
• Two or more years of space-related experience in space situational awareness, satellite catalog maintenance, orbital analysis, and collision avoidance.
• Knowledge of orbital mechanics and astrodynamics, including orbit determination and maintenance, perturbation-based data and formats, orbit decay, and orbital maneuvers.
• Understanding of space-object tracking sensors, networks, data, and their capabilities and limitations.
• Familiarity with Linux-based operating systems, particularly Red Hat or Fedora, and with Astrodynamics Support Workstation software or similar tools.

Nice to have

• Technical degree in aerospace engineering, engineering, space operations, or physics.
• Experience with orbital or space-science data and non-regular data-message management.
• Ability to create short Perl or other scripting-language programs for data-processing automation.
• Ability to multitask and apply innovative analysis in a dynamic environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with competitive salaries and opportunities for career growth.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA or FSA accounts.
• Paid federal holidays, vacation leave, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability and AD&D insurance.
• 401(k) with company match and professional development reimbursement.
• Supplemental and voluntary life insurance options.