
Sr. Offensive Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (OsUAS) Project Leader
Dayton, OHFull-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Aerospace Corporation seeks a Senior Project Leader supporting the USAF Offensive Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (OsUAS) Program Office. The role leads a multidisciplinary team and provides technical leadership and direct engineering contributions to help develop, mature, and integrate UAS capabilities. The selected candidate works full-time on-site in Dayton, Ohio, coordinating technical support and collaborating with government and industry partners.
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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. The Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise. DSG is unique at Aerospace as it not only directly supports major customers, including the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, Air Force Material Command, and senior leadership at the Pentagon, but also provides a broad range of technical support across the national space enterprise, maintaining vertical responsibilities with customers' portfolios as well as horizontal, matrixed responsibilities across the corporation. Additionally, DSG provides deep technical expertise to the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) in the conception, design, acquisition, launch and operations of satellite, launch vehicle, ground control, and range systems. Aerospace's Joint and Multi-Domain Subdivision supports a broad sponsor landscape, extending Aerospace's space-based technical expertise to operational end users. With projects ranging from state of the art research and concept development, to prototyping, cutting-edge laboratory environments, fully integrated operational capabilities, and robust analytics and decision support tools, Aerospace's support to the military Services, Combatant Commands, and other government agencies helps to enable strategic decisions, explore new operational concepts, and drive toward integrated, multi-domain capabilities. As a Senior Project Leader supporting the USAF Offensive Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (OsUAS) Program Office, you will play a critical role in advancing Aerospace's impact across emerging multiuse UAS mission areas. In this position, you will lead a diverse, multidisciplinary team and leverage Aerospace's deep technical reachback to help the government develop, mature, and integrate cuttingedge UAS capabilities. Working directly alongside the OsUAS program office, you will provide both technical leadership and direct engineering contributions that ensure Aerospace delivers timely, highquality support to address a wide range of complex UAS challenges. The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility in Dayton, OH What You'll Be Doing Lead and manage a multidisciplinary Aerospace team providing endtoend technical support to the USAF Offensive Small UAS (OsUAS) Program Office, including oversight of program execution, alignment of technical priorities, and coordination of reachback expertise across Aerospace. Serve as the primary technical and programmatic focal point for the OsUAS government customer, establishing a trusted working relationship and delivering direct contributions to UAS development, integration, test, and fielding activities. Collaborate across government, SETA, contractor, and FFRDC partners to deliver highquality technical assessments, engineering analyses, and decision-support products that advance OsUAS capabilities and meet warfighter needs. Lead integration of Aerospace experts specializing in technical areas such as: autonomy, orchestration, EO/IR sensors, EW, communications, PNT, mesh networking, LIDAR, and kinetic/n
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- US median$120–180K/yr198 salary ranges
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- Olive Jobs lists 23 open Project Leader jobs in Ohio and 446 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Project Leader postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (394 postings).
- Education
- 327 of the 446 open Project Leader jobs (73%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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