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  • ID
    #44936189
  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    Aerospace Corporation
  • Date
    2022-08-16
  • Deadline
    2022-10-15

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The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space- delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

At Aerospace, we are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace for all employees to share in our common passion and aspiration - to carry out a mission much bigger than ourselves.

We remain committed to maintaining a safe environment for hiring as we look forward to the future of work. Click here for information on Aerospace's COVID-19 directives and safety procedures implemented to keep our workplace safe.

Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD) staff couple the latest in information system technologies, such as elastic compute clouds, containerization, microservices, real-time operating systems, and visualization frameworks, with expertise in cyber security, software architecture, software engineering, process improvement, software development, data science, and machine learning to deliver responsive, resilient, high-performance software intensive systems to our IC, DoD, and civilian customers. I'll

The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department (DSAID) seeks an Associate Director to lead a diverse team of engineers, data scientists, and programmers with a passion for researching, prototyping, understanding, and building AI and data enabled tools across the space enterprise. We are a growing, innovative, and collaborative department that makes meaningful contributions to National Security Space (AF, NRO, etc.), and Civil and Commercial customers (NASA, MDA, DHS, etc.).

What You'll Be Doing
  • DSAID's customers range from National Security Space (AF, NRO, etc.) to civil (NASA, NOAA, etc.) and commercial (commercial space, autonomous vehicles, etc.) DSAID applies data science and AI knowledge across the space enterprise, to Aerospace enterprise capabilities, and towards corporate workforce development and strategic focus areas
  • The Associate Director will manage teams spanning various disciplines, experience levels, and organizational boundaries.
  • Primary functions include:
    • Provide leadership, planning, and direction of technical office staff and operations.
    • Assign resources, determines staffing needs, and coordinates activities and operations among subordinate units.
    • Communicate and coordinate activities with counterpart organizations, management, and customers across the corporation.
    • Contribute to department strategy, technical vision, and direction.
    • Work with the Director and Section Managers to recruit, hire, mentor, and lead technology experts and developers to provide the corporation with cutting edge data science and machine learning applications and prototypes demonstrating the state-of-the-art in this domain
    • Develop and maintain relationships with program offices
  • Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned as needed

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited program in Computational Sciences, Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field(s)
  • Previous experience managing technical staff
  • Software development or programming skills in at least two different programming languages (e.g. Python, R, C/C), including familiarity with machine learning and deep learning libraries in Python
  • Familiarity with a broad set of supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised ML-based solutions to complex problems in business, science, or engineering
  • Demonstrated initiative and excellent leadership skills, with proven ability to build and manage effective development teams
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain effective interpersonal and working relationships with various levels of corporate staff, peers, management, program offices, customers, and contractors
  • This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:
  • An advanced degree from an accredited program in Computational Sciences, Data Science, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field(s) (pursuing or conferred within last 12 months)
  • 12 or more years of experience in an engineering discipline
  • Demonstrated ability to efficiently deliver analysis and insights from data that is often large, unstructured, or unprocessed
  • Experience creating effective data visualizations or user interfaces (e.g. matplotlib, seaborn, plot.ly, dash, tableau, react) and communicating results to technical and nontechnical audiences
  • Experience in software and machine learning development best practices (e.g. code, model, and data set version control, experiment tracking and reproduction)
  • Experience implementing and guiding teams toward software and machine learning development best practices
  • Demonstrated contributions to open source software repositories (github, kaggle, etc)
  • Familiarity deploying ML models within applications or on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • Active security clearance

Grade-Based Pay Range

(Min - Mid - Max)$156,000 - $176,500 - $197,000

Ways We Reward Our Employees

During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.

Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type. A few highlights include:
  • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
  • Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
  • 401(k) Plan - Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
  • Relocation assistance
  • Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
  • Education assistance programs
  • An inclusive work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

We are all unique, from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other-the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If you're an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process, please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by email at ieo.mailbox@aero.org . You can also review The Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law and the supplement , as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement .

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