Genesis Analysis / Software Engineer

Intuitive Machines LLC • Houston, TX

31d

About The Position

If you’re excited about contributing to human space exploration and advancing our understanding of the universe, we’d like to hear from you. Join a team that values collaboration, diverse perspectives, and meaningful work. Your skills and ideas will help us design and deliver systems that support future space missions and create benefits here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. This position will work on NASA's Genesis Development and Analysis Team, which provides software development and analytic support for a variety of NASA and commercial programs using the Genesis Flight Mechanics Simulation tool.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering and a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Experience with orbital mechanics and designing spacecraft trajectories.
• Experience with the development of spacecraft mission design algorithms.
• Experience analyzing spacecraft performance.
• Experience with 6-DOF spacecraft simulations.
• Proficiency in C++, Python, and Linux
• Experience in product delivery utilizing source code management tools such as Git/GitLab
• Experience developing, verifying, and validating simulation models.
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and contractor employees.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable successful performance in a collaborative engineering team.
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision.
• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on trajectory design, optimization, and orbital mechanics.
• Proficiency in Julia.

Responsibilities

• Provide software development and scripting of NASA's Genesis Flight Mechanics Simulation tool and related applications.
• Design and execute analyses to compare the performance of different guidance algorithms.
• Demonstrate the use of Core Flight Systems (cFS) in Genesis
• Develop, integrate, and test new algorithms for evaluation of vehicle and mission performance.
• Integrate Genesis with Core Flight Systems and other trajectory software and tools.
• Develop requirements documentation for mission design products.
• Provide recommendations for improvements in design and software development processes.
• Perform other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level