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A² Systems Engineering, Inc., a veteran owned small business, is seeking a Business Development and Capture Manager who will lead initiatives to generate and capture new business opportunities across the US Space Force and Department of Defense agencies implementing our company’s growth strategy. The ideal candidate will support business development efforts from our corporate office in El Segundo, CA and possess a deep knowledge of US Defense Department organizations. This candidate will strengthen the company brand and bolster financial growth through teaming with other business partners. They will have strong communication skills and should be able to think critically.

Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Have market knowledge of Defense Department services, agencies, and industry partners performing systems engineering, integration, and technical assistance to DoD, USAF, USSF, etc.
• Develop and execute planning for high-value opportunities primarily across United States Space Force organizations and the Intelligence Community (IC)
• Experience developing and maintaining relationships with other DoD and IC small and large business industry partners and developing strong teaming strategies
• Plan and participate in capture activities, to include opportunity gate reviews, black hat sessions, collaboration and workshop sessions, and proposal color reviews
• Experience integrating company capability information into response documents, including RFl’s, Sources Sought, data calls, and final proposals
• Identify new business opportunities and work the process from initiation to proposal to transition
• Ability to flourish with senior management guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty
• Develop new relationships in an effort to grow business and help company expand
• Maintain existing business
• Think critically when planning to assure project success

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree – engineering degree regarded favorably but not required
• 10 years’ prior DoD industry related business development experience
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven knowledge and execution of successful development strategies
• Focused and goal-oriented

Salary Range: $150,000/yr – $200,000/yr · Full-time

A² Systems Engineering is seeking an Orbital Analyst (OA) for a position in San Diego, CA. This position requires a detailed understanding of orbital mechanics and will support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) / Narrowband Satellite Communications (NBSC) program office as an orbital engineering subject matter expert. The candidate will solve various orbital mechanics problems and process data for orbital states and predictions as well as conduct detailed orbit planning and constellation planning for both pre and post launch satellites.

Responsibilities:

• Expert in the use of OA tools such as LM STARS, Orbit Analysis System (OAS), OS Comet, Test & Training Simulator, Black Workstation operations & MAS
• Conduct orbit analysis and orbit product generation supporting daily orbit activities for large-scale constellations, including station keeping, conjunction analysis, sensor coverage, and ground entry point (GEP) contact planning
• Apply knowledge of orbital mechanics and astrodynamics to conduct orbital analysis, including orbit determination, general and special perturbation-based data and formats, orbit decay, and orbital maneuvers for station keeping and change of station
• CGN processes manager for risk tools, document centers, and contract evaluations
• Perform real time support, troubleshooting and analysis of in-orbit satellite anomalies, providing immediate and relevant problem identification and resolution
• Provide support for root cause analysis and investigation of satellite anomalies
• Contribute relevant expertise for Informal Notification Notes (INFO Notes) MUOS Satellite Support Center (MSSC) recommendations, Operational Special Mission Timeline (OSMTL)/Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM)/ Orbital Operations Handbook (OOH) development, and training
• Develop and maintain operation procedures including the contingency and normal operational procedures and changes as well as database update management
• Provide in-depth knowledge of the A2100 bus and understanding of satellite subsystems in support of sustainment efforts
• Communicate complex network solutions to technical and non-technical employees

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years of space-related experience involving satellite catalog maintenance, orbital analysis, and collision avoidance
• Toolkit experience, including Systems Toolkit (STK), Orbit Determination Tool Kit (ODTK), and MATLAB
• Trajectory analysis tool experience such as POST, OTIS, Astrogator, or Copernicus
• Operations background to include, in-depth understanding of satellite TT&C operations specific to 10SOPS, payload operations, Delta 8 users and Network Management Facilities (Wahiawa NMF)
• Thorough understanding of spacecraft, space operations and ground interfaces
• System engineering mindset that allows the person to have a global view of problems and solution sets
• Self-starter with a strong sense of personal responsibility

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Space Operations or Physics; or equivalent technical field from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

Clearance:

• Active DoD Secret clearance to start
• Active TOP SECRET clearance with Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) eligibility, (Desired)
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position

Location/Travel Requirements:

• Full-time, on site in vicinity of San Diego, CA, and will require travel up to 25% of time within the continental United States

A² Systems Engineering, Inc., a veteran owned small business, is seeking a Systems Engineer with web applications and database developer experience who will provide support to a Government customer in El Segundo, CA. The prospective candidate must be able to take the initiative for a variety of tasks and projects without direction.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop databases using industry standard tools
• Build and maintain database repositories
• Provide proactive and reactive data management, updates, support and training to users
• Provide other engineering support as required by the customer and contract

Required Experience/Clearance:

• 5+ years architecting and developing data-driven web applications and knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Excel and C++
• Use of MS Power Apps to build custom apps to automate organizational processes
• Database development experience
• Demonstrated ability to perform all duties independently (no hesitation seeking out data owners to integrate data)
• US Citizen clearable to TS/SCI

Education:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, software engineering, physics, systems engineering, or other engineering

Desired skills:

• SharePoint client-side development experience
• SQL database programming
• Application integration experience (APIs)
• MS Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) experience
• Domain knowledge in related areas (roadmaps, technology planning, future space force concepts, etc.)
• InQTel, Govini, Exiger business intelligence tools, SysML
• Experience automating business processes
• Experience in multiple hosting platforms
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources

Salary Range: $135,000/yr – $150,000/yr · Full-time

A² Systems Engineering is seeking a Mission Integration Systems Engineer for a position in Torrance, CA. The prospective candidate must be able to take the initiative for a variety of tasks and projects without direction and collaborate well with their mission solutions teammates.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams on Space Systems Engineering projects and tasks
• Assess system architecture and current hardware limitations
• Participate in gathering business and product functional and performance requirements
• Define and design system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility

Required Experience/Clearance:

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience in the defense industry
• Experience in research, exploitation, computer analysis, characterization, databases, information dissemination, data analysis, configuration management, application programming/development, and/or modeling and simulation
• US Citizenship with the willingness and ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Security Clearance

Education:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in physics, math, computer science, related technical field, systems engineering, or other STEM degree, with demonstrated experience in this mission domain

Desired Qualifications:

• Active DoD Security clearance
• Experience with MATLAB, Solidworks (CAD) or other similar technical experience
• 2+ years’ experience in government or industry supporting space, aerospace, or related defense programs
• Familiar with space systems integration analysis and requirements verification processes and are willing to engage in program and technical discussions to determine compatible solutions
• Experience with effective organizational skills and pursue/deliver solutions including space vehicle and launch integration packages

Salary Range: $130,000/yr – $150,000/yr · Full-time

A² Systems Engineering, Inc., a veteran owned small business, is seeking a DevSecOps Cloud Solution Architect in San Diego, CA. The DevSecOps Cloud Solution Architect will serve as an expert in transitioning a traditional HW/SW architecture to a containerized, digital architecture using tools such as Kubernetes, etc., to support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) / Narrowband Satellite Communications (NBSC) program office. The candidate will be familiar with cloud architecture and DevSecOps best practices, tools, and approaches, and demonstrated technical leadership experience either within industry or government overseeing similar transition(s) for other national security systems. The candidate will also be involved in every stage in the software project lifecycle, from initial design and build to rollout and maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering system requirements from application architects and product owners
• Responsible for technical evaluation of cloud strategy and program architecture
• Remain current with new emerging industry cloud technologies and their potential utilization within hybrid cloud environments
• Collaborate with the software platform engineers to enable applications to run on cloud infrastructure
• Transition and operate architected and engineered tech solutions into hybrid and cloud environment
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure design in a networking capacity
• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, spanning-tree architecture, subnetting architecture, routing protocols and routing system architecture and design, access control lists, wireless, VPN architecture, network access control architecture, and firewall architecture
• Experience in a multi-vendor environment, with the ability to transfer network configurations and concepts from one vendor to another. Desired vendor experience in Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto firewalls
• Ability to communicate complex network solutions to technical and non-technical employees

Required Experience/Education:

• 10+ years of experience required in Cloud infrastructure design in a networking capacity
• Network tools including but not limited to: Ansible, Wireshark, Network Management Systems, Network Configuration Management, sflow/netflow, IPAM, and SDN
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, network, and security
• Experience with Linux and programming languages like Python, NodeJS or Java
• Extensive configuration and system design experience with OSPF, BGP, port-channels, firewalls, network fabrics, and DMVPN
• Experience with Version control system
• Self-starter with a strong sense of personal responsibility
• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security Systems, Engineering, or related field from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

Clearance Requirements:

• Active DoD Secret clearance to start
• Active TOP SECRET clearance with Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) eligibility, (Desired)
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: CCNP, JNCIP-ENT or similar
• Gitlab experience

A² Systems Engineering, Inc., a veteran owned small business, is seeking a Clean Energy Analyst to support the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment & Energy Resilience). Located in the National Capital Region, this person must have a passion for clean energy and strong energy background, particularly in Department of Defense (DoD) Installation Energy, and strong communication and critical thinking ability.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise in support of government clients in the areas of carbon free electricity, zero emissions vehicles and related infrastructure, and net zero.
• Attend high-level meetings when the government client is unable to, knowing when to take note of pertinent energy issues, and then communicating meeting outcomes back to the client.
• Lead the coordination of large webinars and working groups on various clean energy topics, such as carbon free electricity, zero emissions vehicles, net zero and others to include identifying speakers and managing the overall virtual event.
• Generate important documents to communicate clean energy progress, data, and messages, such as emails, briefings, and more.
• Draft responses to Congressional requests and for information and reporting requirements for review by the government client.
• Conduct data analysis and generate data visualizations as assigned using large clean energy data sets.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated writing ability and experience, specifically in policy writing, reports generation, and presentation creation

• Demonstrated clean energy background and experience in carbon free energy technologies, zero emissions vehicles, and net zero
• Experience working with DoD clients and DoD energy programs, knowledge of DoD energy policy and mandates
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• Top Secret clearance

Desired:

• Demonstrated data analysis or data visualization skills
• Experience with data visualization programs such as Microsoft Power BI or others

Salary Range: $130,000/yr – $150,000/yr · Full-time