Aerospace Systems Engineer

Job title: Aerospace Systems Engineer

About the Role Guidehouse is seeking Aerospace Systems Engineers from Consultant through Associate Director levels to sustain an operational system for orbital warfare that ingests and fuses data from multiple sensors across multiple classification domains and disseminates it to enable space domain awareness and time-critical decision-making. The engineer level will depend on total years of experience, and the role includes end-to-end system sustainment, architecture management, and cross-domain collaboration in a high-security environment.

What You'll Do

• Implement and manage sustainment of the end-to-end system architecture, including resilience design for two independently operational sites (primary and alternate)—ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and continuity of operations.
• Drive configuration management and disciplined change control; maintain defect/deficiency tracking, provisioning artifacts, technical data packages, and formal test plans required for operational baselines and accredited releases.
• Plan and execute recurring upgrades and integrations of new mission capabilities—coordinating release trains, regression testing, and performance validation across enclaves and classification levels.
• Manage architectures and communications across domains, including Cross Domain Solutions, ensuring policy-compliant data flows, interface control, and cyber-hardened pathways between networks.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams (systems, software, network, cybersecurity, T&E) through agile sprints to deliver sustainment, patching, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement aligned with mission priorities.
• Execute special activities in classified environments, including capacity planning studies, cyber-terrain mapping, cloud innovation within accredited environments, and containerization approaches to enhance portability and resilience.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders on RMF/ATO artifacts, zero-trust alignment, operational test readiness, and site acceptance—maintaining meticulous documentation for audit and mission assurance.
• Measure, report, and optimize availability, latency, throughput, and mission effectiveness; use data-driven dashboards to inform risk, issue, and performance management.

What We're Looking For

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "TOP SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
• Bachelor's degree; FOUR years of related experience in lieu of degree (level will depend on total years of experience)
• ONE year minimum of experience supporting federal programs, operational DoD/USSF systems, or public-sector consulting in systems sustainment, integration, or mission operations
• Ability to work on-site in Kirtland AFB (NM) or Schriever SFB (CO) and travel between locations up to 20%

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree (Engineering, Computer Science, or related)