IVA Spacesuit Systems Engineer

MbSolutions•Houston, TX

About The Position

The IVA Spacesuit Systems Engineer supports exploration projects by applying systems engineering practices and creating development life-cycle artifacts. The role works closely with customers, team leads, and team members and supports activities across system life-cycle phases, including concept development, trade studies, design, integration, testing, verification and validation, operations, and sustainment. The engineer may guide other team members and lead aspects of project activities, including defining stakeholder needs, decomposing system functions, developing technical requirements, negotiating and documenting interfaces, performing design analyses, and supporting verification, validation, testing, and operations. The position also involves developing and modeling concepts; defining, flowing down, assessing, and verifying requirements; developing concepts of operations and software V&V plans; identifying risks and developing risk statements and responses; reviewing milestone-review documentation and hazard analyses; participating in trade studies and stakeholder reviews; and attending project meetings and providing summaries to technical leads. The engineer reports progress, issues, and support requests to the team lead and maintains professional relationships with the NASA customer, other NASA support contractors, and HLS commercial partners. Other duties may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Typically 2–5 years of experience in the field or a related area.
Experience in technology demonstrations and early program concept development and formulation.
Experience with requirements development, design trades, concept-of-operations development, risk analysis, and system analysis of space hardware.
Experience creating concepts for operations of single systems and operations across multiple space vehicles.
Experience with technology roadmap development and technology integration plans.
Experience collecting and understanding stakeholder needs.
Experience defining interfaces for complex subsystems and between multiple systems or mission elements.
Experience with testing and verification of spaceflight hardware.
Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation.

Nice To Haves

Degree in electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering.
Experience working with multiple NASA organizations and international partners.
Experience working across NASA centers.
Experience with hardware or software development projects.
Familiarity with human space exploration systems, such as Orion, Commercial Crew, ISS, or EMU/xEMU.
Basic knowledge of commonly used space-hardware concepts and practices, including mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, and material selection for engineering products.
INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.
Familiarity with system architecture tools such as DoDAF or TODAF.

Responsibilities

Create systems engineering development life-cycle artifacts and guide team members in creating them.
Implement systems engineering principles and practices across systems.
Support life-cycle activities from early concept development through trade studies, design, integration, testing, verification and validation, operations, and sustainment.
Help define system stakeholder needs and decompose system functions.
Develop technical requirements and support requirements definition, flow-down, assessment, and verification.
Negotiate and document system interfaces, including interfaces between complex subsystems and mission systems or elements.
Perform design and system analyses and support verification and validation planning and execution, testing, and operations.
Develop and model concepts, concepts of operations, and software V&V plans.
Identify risks and develop risk statements and responses with team members.
Review documentation for major milestone reviews, including TRR, CDR, and SAR, and review hazard analyses.
Work on trade studies and participate in stakeholder reviews.
Attend project meetings and provide meeting summaries to technical leads.
Report progress, issues, and requests for support to the team lead.
Maintain professional relationships with the NASA customer, NASA support contractors, and HLS commercial partners.
Perform other duties as required.