Associate Space Systems Engineer - Resilient Space Missions
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, MA · Posted November 7, 2026
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About the job
...MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Group 94, Electronics for Contested Space, seeks an aerospace/astronautical or systems analysis engineer to develop and test the next generation of resilient space systems. You will contribute from pre-concept ideas to mission-critical platforms...