Careers

The Position

ATAC has an opening for a Senior Systems Engineer. This is a full-time position located in Washington DC, the Atlantic City New Jersey area, or Santa Clara California. Other East Coast locations may be considered for the right candidate. The successful candidate will support large scalable systems for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that collect and analyze massive volumes of data from a variety of sources to develop safety analyses, including the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) system.

Responsibilities will include:

• Serve as a technical/engineering expert for a new IT architecture platform, integrating advanced analytical tools (using artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies) into the next generation system; coordinate the design and collection/processing/analysis of multiple sources and varieties of data (digital, text and other) at scale.
• Be responsible for the architectural design, development, and deployment of the technical infrastructure, working on advanced projects requiring state of the art technical knowledge.  The infrastructure includes cloud automation, hardware, software, network, data fusion, visualization and analytical tools, web portals, associated servers and security, and other components.
• Lead the program’s transition from legacy system to the next generation system incorporating advanced analytic capabilities, update operating procedures based on business processes; establish application and data migration plan, develop and implement the transition plan to ensure a successful transition.
• Advise and support the development and implementation of system requirements, based on stakeholder needs and program office direction.
• Act as a technical project manager to coordinate migration and implementation efforts from a legacy system to a cloud environment in collaboration with multiple vendors.
• Oversee development of interfaces to all sub-system in compliance with the system solution.
• Be responsible for System and Subsystem Level Design requirements
• Define System Validation Plans, execute System Validation Testing, and work with Test Engineers to ensure traceability satisfies the project’s objectives.

A background check will be required for this position.                       

Qualifications

ATAC is looking for a self-starter that can work independently and complete projects with minimum oversight. They must be adaptable and able to learn new coding languages, tools, and technologies as necessary to meet customer needs.  

Required attributes include: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer, Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant discipline and 10 to 20 years of related job experience.
• Five-plus years of recent and quantifiable experience in major systems architecture efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement major IT/big data systems; broad experience with developing big data systems to collect, process, and analyze multiple varieties of data at scale, and to understand component interactions and interfaces including understanding Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) design and implementation.
• Expertise in data architecture and application of data governance.
• Capabilities in translating Aviation safety use cases into technical solution architecture.
• Experience with microservices based architecture.
• Ability to formulate programmatic requirements into technical requirements.
• Broad expertise and knowledge of big data technologies and cloud computing, networking, storage and security principles and operations; experience in visualizing multi-dimensional data and integrating various machine learning approaches.
• A solid track record of data management including high-level knowledge of data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval with experience creating strategy and roadmaps to leverage/integrate advanced technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing high-level requirements into actionable technical courses and developing associated engineering artifacts that support system functional requirements, technical specifications, and performance standards.
• Demonstrated ability to manipulate datasets with modern languages such as Python (scikit-learn, pandas, tensorflow).
• Experience with visualizing multi-dimensional data using business intelligence tools such as Tableau, ggplot2, matplotlib, seaborn, PowerBI, GIS, or D3.js, Amazon Quicksight.
• Experience balancing distribution of analysis outputs with protection of contributor identities.
• Experience evaluating and integrating big data techniques, such as hashing and encryption, to limit the exposure of sensitive information, while enhancing connectivity and interfaces.
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and recommend optimal technologies for an evolving platform.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal relations skills.
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.

Desired attributes include:

• Experience with AWS cloud services, Azure cloud services, Agile software development, and Big Data concepts.
• Aviation and/or safety background/experience.
• Knowledge of the current air traffic management system.

In addition, the ideal candidate is a team player, open to new ideas, technologies and development methodologies, thinks both logically and creatively, and approaches problems and problem solving with a positive and constructive attitude.

Corporate Information

ATAC Corporation is a software and services company that specializes in providing the aviation community with state-of-the-art computer simulation, modeling, and analysis tools, as well as expert services in air traffic systems and operations design and analysis.  We are committed to making major contributions to the aviation industry by providing high quality products and services to meet critical needs, while maintaining a creative, innovative, and responsive, small-company environment.

ATAC serves clients in both the public and private sectors via its headquarters office in Santa Clara, California and branch offices in Washington, DC, and San Diego, California.  Primary clients include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), service branches of the Department of Defense (DOD), airport authorities, airport planning and engineering firms, and private companies involved with aviation systems development and integration.

ATAC offers a casual business environment within a supportive team of like-minded individuals. Pride in ATAC’s working and aviation-focused environment and culture is key to our success. Those who share this passion will thrive here. If this sounds like you, please use one of the following methods to send your resume AND a cover letter in which you summarize the particular elements of your background that relate to the requirements of this position. 

Fax: 408 727 8447
E-mail: Human Resources at esa@atac.com
Please send a non-formatted ASCII-text version of your resume in the body of the email, or attach your cover letter and resume as Microsoft Word documents.

ATAC Corporation
Attn: Human Resources
2770 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2624

ATAC is EOE Disabled/Veterans

The Position

ATAC has an opening for a junior to mid-level Aviation Analyst.  This is a full-time position and will be located at ATAC Headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The ideal candidate will have an interest in aviation and a solid technical background.  Training for this position will be provided.  The successful candidate will participate in the FAA’s Performance Data Analysis and Reporting System (PDARS), a system for the automatic collection, analysis and reporting of aviation performance measurements.

 Responsibilities will include:

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of air traffic data
• Application of visualization software to understand air traffic operations
• Use of simulation software to assist clients with analysis of airport/airspace operations
• Development and deployment of aviation performance reports
• Aviation data verification and validation
• Calibration and troubleshooting of data processing algorithms
• Presentation and briefing development
• Onsite support of FAA users/customers.

A background check will be required for this position.                       

Qualifications

ATAC is looking for career-minded people with the potential to grow professionally and advance into positions of greater technical and project management responsibility. 

Required attributes include: 

• A college degree in the area of operations research, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mathematics, statistics or related field
• 3-5 years of relevant working experience in an engineering and/or analytical position
• Ability to conduct engineering and planning analysis
• Good PC applications skills with office tools including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Good written and oral communication skills and interpersonal relations skills
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency

Desired attributes include:

• PC programming experience (VBA, Perl, and Python)
• A statistics background (R, Shiny)
• Experience in air traffic control systems or as a private/commercial/military pilot.

Corporate Information

ATAC Corporation is a software and services company that specializes in providing the aviation community with state-of-the-art computer simulation, modeling, and analysis tools, as well as expert services in air traffic systems and operations design and analysis.  We are committed to making major contributions to the aviation industry by providing high quality products and services to meet critical needs, while maintaining a creative, innovative, and responsive, small-company environment.

ATAC serves clients in both the public and private sectors via its headquarters office in Santa Clara, California and branch offices in Washington, DC, and San Diego, California.  Primary clients include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), service branches of the Department of Defense (DOD), airport authorities, airport planning and engineering firms, and private companies involved with aviation systems development and integration.

ATAC offers a casual business environment within a supportive team of innovative individuals.  Pride in ATAC’s working and aviation-focused environment and culture is key to our success.  Those who share this passion will thrive here. If this sounds like you, please use one of the following methods to send your resume AND a cover letter in which you summarize the particular elements of your background that relate to the requirements of this position. If you need assistance in submitting a resume, please contact Human Resources at (408) 736-2822

Fax: 408 727 8447

E-mail: Human Resources at esa@atac.com
Please send a non-formatted ASCII-text version of your resume in the body of the email, or attach your cover letter and resume as Microsoft Word documents.

ATAC Corporation
Attn: Human Resources
2770 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2624

ATAC is EOE Disabled/Veterans

The Position

ATAC has an opening for a Senior Aviation Research Engineer. This is a full-time position and is located in Santa Clara, California. The successful candidate will provide technical contributions to ATAC’s Research and Product Development Division for innovative research efforts and the design, development, and deployment of aviation information systems.

Today, aviation stands at the threshold of a revolutionary transformation to an air traffic management system that safely accommodates growing demand for new air vehicles such as urban air mobility aircraft, supersonic commercial transport, and ubiquitous unmanned air systems. Our Aviation Systems Engineers and Data Analytics experts are helping the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in building this exciting new future of Aviation. We are building cutting-edge data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, simulation and decision support technologies that will enable increasingly autonomous air traffic decision-making, advances in human-machine teaming, and integration of air traffic technologies in an open architecture, while ensuring system-wide safety.

As someone who is passionate about aviation operations as well as data analytics and other data driven techniques, and their applications to real world problems, you will have the initiative and drive to develop for our clients innovative, cutting-edge solutions.

If you have passion for Aviation and a Data Analytics background, this job is a perfect fit for you!

 Responsibilities will include:

• Leading and participating in aviation focused research projects from start to finish.
• Formulating and defining integration scope and objectives based on user needs, specifications and research.
• Developing data analytics and other data-driven techniques and applying them to model/solve real-world aviation problems
• Integrating advanced data mining techniques into ATAC research and commercial products.
• Interacting with aviation subject matter experts (SMEs) to incorporate their knowledge into data analytics algorithms.
• Conducting independent technical investigations supporting research and product development.
• Writing research papers for aviation research conferences.
• Writing proposals for research projects.
• Work may include application of techniques such as machine learning, neural networks, or other Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled software algorithms to find significant patterns in aviation and related data.
• Work may also include devising or modifying system procedures to solve complex problems, considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Work may include utilizing Big Data and GPU-based processing techniques to scale computational problems.

A background check will be required for this position.                       

Qualifications

ATAC is looking for career-minded people with the potential to grow professionally, provide technical expertise and assume project management responsibilities.

Required attributes include: 

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in science, engineering, or math with a minimum of three years of relevant experience in data mining, statistical analysis, simulation and modeling, machine learning, Big Data, or AI algorithm development.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate software concepts in a number of languages
• Experience includes the development of algorithms to process aviation-related data sets
• Experience with building web-based aviation metrics dashboards using options such as Javascript, Angular, etc., is highly desirable
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with large data sets
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal relations skills
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.

In addition, the ideal candidate is a team player, is open to new ideas, and has experience with technologies and development methodologies including Python and Java, as well as aviation-related data sources such as SWIM or FOQA data.

Corporate Information

ATAC Corporation is a software and services company that specializes in providing the aviation community with state-of-the-art computer simulation, modeling, and analysis tools, as well as expert services in air traffic systems and operations design and analysis.  We are committed to making major contributions to the aviation industry by providing high quality products and services to meet critical needs, while maintaining a creative, innovative, and responsive, small-company environment.

ATAC serves clients in both the public and private sectors via its headquarters office in Santa Clara, California and branch offices in Washington, DC, and San Diego, California.  Primary clients include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), service branches of the Department of Defense (DOD), airport authorities, airport planning and engineering firms, and private companies involved with aviation systems development and integration.

If this sounds like you, please use one of the following methods to send your resume AND a cover letter in which you summarize the particular elements of your background that relate to the requirements of this position. 

Fax: 408 727 8447
E-mail: Human Resources at esa@atac.com
Please send a non-formatted ASCII-text version of your resume in the body of the email, or attach your cover letter and resume as Microsoft Word documents.

ATAC Corporation
Attn: Human Resources
2770 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2624

ATAC is EOE Disabled/Veterans

The Position

ATAC has an opening for a Director of Military Programs. This is a full-time position that can be located anywhere in the continental U.S. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated member of ATAC’s business development team and will also provide high-level management of ATAC’s military aviation operations programs for Department of Defense clients. Functioning within a small business, the ATAC Military Programs Director will be a key leader within the senior management team.

 Responsibilities will include:

• Develop ATAC’s military airspace operations, airfield operations, air traffic control, and capacity analysis business through broad-reaching client interaction, partnerships, and thorough knowledge and creative application of ATAC products and services.
• Seek and maintain detailed knowledge of military, other Federal Government, and private sector client and potential client operations support and analysis needs.
• Direct ATAC’s military operations analysis programs including the NASMOD modeling and simulation system.
• Support company-wide proposal writing.
• Represent ATAC in relevant government and industry meetings.

A background check will be required for this position.                       

Qualifications

ATAC is looking for a leadership and business development oriented person who will grow ATAC’s military business and become an active, key participant in ATAC’s senior management team.

Required attributes include: 

• Significant recent military airspace and airfield operations experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal relations skills
• Strong analytical skills
• BA/BS degree and 20+ years of related job experience
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency

Desired attributes include:

• Business development experience
• Knowledge of DoD and FAA contracting processes
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• UAV engineering and/or UAV operations experience

In addition, the ideal candidate is a team player, open to new ideas, technologies and development methodologies, thinks both logically and creatively, and approaches problems and problem solving with a positive and constructive attitude.

Corporate Information

ATAC Corporation is a software and services company that specializes in providing the aviation community with state-of-the-art computer simulation, modeling, and analysis tools, as well as expert services in air traffic systems and operations design and analysis.  We are committed to making major contributions to the aviation industry by providing high quality products and services to meet critical needs, while maintaining a creative, innovative, and responsive, small-company environment.

ATAC serves clients in both the public and private sectors via its headquarters office in Santa Clara, California and branch offices in Washington, DC, and San Diego, California.  Primary clients include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), service branches of the Department of Defense (DOD), airport authorities, airport planning and engineering firms, and private companies involved with aviation systems development and integration.

ATAC offers a casual business environment within a supportive team of like-minded individuals. We are proud of our working environment, our culture and our people – we will be the best place to work for those who share our passion. If this sounds like you, please use one of the following methods to send your resume AND a cover letter in which you summarize the particular elements of your background that relate to the requirements of this position. 

Fax: 408 727 8447
E-mail: Human Resources at esa@atac.com
Please send a non-formatted ASCII-text version of your resume in the body of the email, or attach your cover letter and resume as Microsoft Word documents.

ATAC Corporation
Attn: Human Resources
2770 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2624

ATAC is EOE Disabled/Veterans