Erin Flores is a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman, responsible for designing integration and test plans for space-based systems. Prior experience includes serving as Project Lead Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer for a Master's Degree capstone project at MIVI Neuroscience, Inc., where Erin developed real-time algorithms for blood clot detection. Additional roles encompass coding instruction for middle school students, private tutoring with an emphasis on executive functioning, and multiple research assistant positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on cosmology and gravitational wave studies. Erin holds a Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics from UCLA and a Master of Engineering in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UC Irvine.