The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The space race is now a far more complex endeavor, with adversaries continually challenging the current paradigm. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration.

Corporate Strategy 

Aerospace’s Corporate Strategy seeks to strengthen and align our efforts across the depth of expertise and breadth knowledge across mission lifecycles. These areas of excellence serve to sharpen our focus to specifically address the transforming space domain. 

• Enterprise Mission Success: Leveraging Aerospace’s expertise end-to-end across mission and system lifecycles, integrating perspectives and approaches to foster collaboration.
• Technical Excellence: Developing advanced concepts to shape how our customers think about and prepare to solve the hard problems of the future.
• Operational Excellence: Strengthening our business operations to maximize our value to our customers and reinvest in what we do best.
• People Excellence: Ensuring our workforce has the right skills to meet the evolving needs of our nation’s space programs and solve the hardest problems of tomorrow.

How We Do Space

The corporation employs 4,600+ employees, with 78% of those being technical staff. Within the technical staff, more than 800 hold Ph.Ds. Our people are the heart of Aerospace’s success. Aerospace’s culture empowers our people to continually aspire to:

• Lead From the Front – We are courageous and proactive problem solvers who inspire our customers and industry ahead of need with new directions and concepts.
• Collaborate Across the Enterprise – We unleash the full strength of the corporation by teaming and integrating the best ideas across organizational boundaries to solve hard problems.
• Operate with Agility and Speed – We are an organization that thrives in the face of uncertainty with a willingness to learn, experiment, take risks and pivot with urgency when needed.

Our Core Values

Aerospace is the nation’s trusted partner, solving the hardest problems for the preeminent space enterprise. The corporation’s commitment to its core values has made it the leading architect and principal technical resource for programs of national significance.

• Dedication to Mission Success
  Committed to the success of the customer’s mission and service to the nation

• Technical Excellence
  World-class experts tackling critical problems of national significance

• Commitment to Our People
  Inspiring and empowering our people to innovate, collaborate, and make a difference

• Objectivity and Integrity
  An independent & unbiased nonprofit organization, always delivering the technical truth

• Innovation
  Shaping the future in a time of unprecedented change

Equal Opportunity Commitment

The Aerospace Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. 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 peoplemangmnt.mailbox@aero.org. You can also review Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.