Director General of the Center for Space Futures since April 2024, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

She has been the Vice President of Diversity Initiatives at the International Astronautical Federation since September 2022, an advisor to the Saudi Space Agency since September 2021, and a founding partner of the Saudi Beauty Box Company since October 2010.

She is considered the first female engineer in the rocket and spacecraft industry in the Arabian Gulf. She has expertise in aerodynamics, vehicle design, predictive simulation, and rocket separation analysis.

She joined NASA at the age of 22, and worked as a rocket and spacecraft engineer at the agency. She was also an assistant professor of rocket and spacecraft engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami in the United States between August and December 2019, and a consultant for technology, nuclear energy, and space propulsion at Northrop Grumman between 2020 and 2021.

She was also a business development advisor at the French Military Industries Corporation between November 2015 and May 2018, and the General Manager, CEO, and Rocket and Spacecraft Engineer at Mashael Aerospace between May 2010 and November 2015, which she founded.

She worked as a Systems Engineer in the Aerodynamics Division at Raytheon Missile Systems from 2008 to 2010, as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2007, and as a Graduate Research Assistant in the same department from August 2006 to December 2007.

She received the "Inspirational Woman of the Year Award 2015" at the Arab Women Awards, the Scientific Achievement Award from King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2018, the "Excellence in Rocket and Spacecraft Engineering Award" twice, in 2005 and 2006, and was ranked among the "10 Most Influential Arab Women in the World."

She completed her studies at the Florida Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where she obtained a Master's degree in Aircraft, Missile, and Spacecraft Engineering in 2007, a Bachelor's degree in Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Missile Engineering in 2006, and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics in 2006.