# Space Launch Engineer, SSC/SYD 80

Summary Do not email applications. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here. For additional information on other USSF direct hire opportunities visit the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on LinkedIn. Duties The United States Space Force (USSF) at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM L is searching for a Space Launch Engineer to support SSC/SYD 80 (NH-0801-03, GS-12/13 Equivalent). Description: Are You Ready to Launch Your Career into Orbit? Join the United States Space Force's premier rapid response launch team as a Space Launch Engineer & Program Manager, where your work directly supports the Nation's most critical defense missions. This is your chance to lead high-stakes launch acquisition and operations across a constellation of national priorities-including missions for the USSF, Office of the Secretary of War (OSW), Army, Navy, Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), and the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Golden Dome space-based interceptor program. If you are an experienced launch systems engineer driven by technical excellence, complex problem-solving, and operational velocity, this is where your expertise commands center

- **Id**: 3772694
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/us-air-force-space-launch-engineer-sscsyd-80>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Kirtland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T16:24:44Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T16:24:44Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12219
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Launch Services, National Security, Combat Aircraft

## Company

- **Id**: 1753555
- **Name**: US Air Force
- **Domain**: af.mil
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/af-mil>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 90479
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 90479

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T22:04:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: seen:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 90479
- **Is top pay**: no

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