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Job Summary:
The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. They are seeking a Software Modernization Engineer to lead the modernization of software systems and provide technical leadership in software architecture and cloud computing.
Responsibilities:
• Provide high-level software systems engineering and architectural direction for complex, large-scale applications across space, ground, and launch domains.
• Lead the evolution of legacy monolithic architectures into modern, resilient, microservices-based configurations deployed across cloud and virtualized environments.
• Lead rigorous technical trade studies and rapid prototyping efforts to evaluate and securely implement emerging cloud-native, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Serve as a core technical liaison, translating high-level customer mission objectives into actionable architectural milestones, driving alignment across program managers, engineering teams, and external stakeholders.
• Champion modern software development methodologies, driving positive change by introducing new commercial perspectives, challenging established practices, and mentoring junior engineers.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a STEM related field.
• Six or more years of experience with increasing responsibility in software engineering or software architecture.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and to quickly learn and adapt to new software technologies and languages.
• Experience in software engineering, full lifecycle development, and advanced problem solving.
• Experience in at least one of the following areas: Modernizing legacy systems into unified, maintainable, automated software applications, Model-based systems engineering and complex systems modeling, Designing and maintaining backend services and REST APIs using modern frameworks with integrations across enterprise services, workflow systems, and cloud environments, AI/ML applications, including large language models (LLM), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or NLP, Building or extending data ingestion pipelines — including large-scale content ingestion, metadata extraction, change detection, indexing, and automated job monitoring, Cloud and microservices architecture, including managed services for compute, storage, and monitoring, Experience integrating systems across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, including Linux-based deployments and enterprise search ecosystems, Agile methodologies, DevOps, and CI/CD practices to deliver maintainable and reliable software solutions.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to other domestic work locations or customer sites.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
Preferred:
• Advanced degree (Master’s or Doctorate) in a STEM or related technical field.
• Experience interfacing with customers from the intelligence community, DoD, or other civilian agencies (NASA, NNSA, NOAA, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, developing, testing, or maintaining complex software for satellite operations.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in two or more of the following areas, with the ability to independently lead associated tasks: A track record of leading modernization efforts that consolidate multi-step manual processes, legacy scripts, or fragile data pipelines into reliable, automated applications, Experience architecting or scaling enterprise data ingestion systems, AI/ML applications, including LLM-based tools, RAG architectures, or NLP, Backend service development using modern frameworks with REST API design, systems integration, and database interaction (relational and cloud-hosted), Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) for storage, compute, monitoring, and certificate management, Agile workflows, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), and rapid prototyping of internal software tools
• Demonstrated ability to bring industry knowledge of modern software practices to drive innovation within established teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical information to a wide range of audiences.
• Strong track record of building, mentoring, and leading technical teams or working groups from the ground up.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
Company:
As the government’s preeminent space innovation partner, Aerospace brings technical expertise to advance the nation's missions in space. Founded in 1960, the company is headquartered in El Segundo, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.