Responsibilities include conceptualizing, designing, analyzing, and testing aerospace system configuration and launch options to meet mission requirements; conduct aerospace system configuration trade studies to determine the type of configuration that best meets the requirements of individual subsystems (e.g., propulsion, RF, attitude control, power, and payload); perform thermal and dynamic analyses of spacecraft mechanisms; design, test, and simulate spacecraft models and prototypes; design, develop, and test prototype hardware in new technical areas such as energy conversion and transportation; define program level requirements; verify that program requirements are completed; communicate effectively in oral presentations in front of managers and sponsors and write clear thorough documentation based on work performed. Minimum Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or another related engineering field with an additional 15 years of experience in aerospace engineering and design implementing launch vehicle requirements, the space environment, aerospace materials, and spacecraft testing techniques.