Emma Young

Emma Young is an accomplished Systems Engineer with extensive experience in aerospace, particularly at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where responsibilities included leading Mars 2020 mission training and serving as a systems engineer for the Mars Sample Return project. Emma's expertise encompasses mission operations systems architecture, requirement authoring, and verification/validation planning. Previous roles include Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies, where Emma designed mission control systems and led operational reviews, and earlier stints at NASA and Lockheed Martin, contributing to significant space missions such as Curiosity and GOES-R. Emma holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, focusing on Bioastronautics, from the University of Colorado Boulder.