Performance ENGINEERING INTERN

Aerodyne Industries • Houston, TX

4d • $23 - $32

About The Position

The Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), NASA’s next-generation mission operations contract, has an excellent opportunity for an intern to join the Performance Engineering team. System Performance Engineering encompasses the techniques applied during the system development life cycle to ensure the non-functional requirements for ground systems within the Mission Control Center Systems (MCCS), Training Systems (TS), Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF) are met. Adherence to the non-functional requirements is also validated post-deployment by monitoring the production systems. The applicant will work in a dynamic team environment and will be responsible for working with the NASA customer, other systems engineers, and software engineers to understand system requirements and to determine the operation of the system through measuring and evaluating its system performance characteristics. The applicant could have the unique opportunity to support human spaceflight during the mission operation critical phases of launch, rendezvous, and landing. COSMOS ensures the continuity of critical human spaceflight support by providing mission control services advanced training systems, and full-scale spacecraft mockups for astronaut preparation and engineering analysis.

Requirements

• Must be working towards a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree.
• Familiarity with scripting and/or automation.
• Familiarity with the software, development life cycle (SDLC).
• Be able to work a flexible and dynamic work schedule.
• Could OJT (On the Job training) real-time mission ops during second or third shift, nights and weekends.
• Must be able to obtain a NASA Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Badge for NASA credentials.
• Possess strong initiative.
• Be a team player (teamwork).
• Be flexible to changing program needs.
• Possess strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Requires close communication and collaboration with other engineers, the software development community and NASA customer to successfully perform analysis and monitor systems.
• Will be a self-learner, curious and familiar with SW engineering.
• Possess coding skills (Python, C+, Linux, Windows).
• Be detail oriented.
• Have clear concise communication (able to explain technical performance data and metrics/data visualization).
• Ability to work towards deadlines and deliver quality products.

Nice To Haves

• Working towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, MIS, Math or a related area.
• An understanding of the full software development life cycle from planning, design, building, testing, deployment and maintenance (SDLC) is a plus.
• Data visualization skills like Power BI, or Python virtualization (venv).
• Experience with software containers (Docker, Pod).
• Experience with Office 365 Tools; Windows Admin skills.
• Previous experience with automation, Linux, and Python.
• Previous experience with data mining and data management.
• Familiarity with scripting languages and monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with Requirements verification methodologies.
• Familiarity with Service Now, SolarWinds, Big Fix, Splunk or similar tools.
• Leadership skills.
• Understanding of data structures.
• Data Science and Statistical learning.
• Data Programming.
• Experience with networking (familiarity with Wireshark is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Work in a dynamic team environment helping with code refactoring, moving to using version control, and work to move to have a test/development location for the team.
• Create new automation tools/scripts.
• Assist with software acceptance review package first look analysis possibly helping with the creation of scripts to automate this process.
• Work with team members on deep dive analysis steps.
• Train the intern on performance diagnostic work and possibly allow them to handle simpler Incident Report (IRs).
• Review and update team documentation.
• Exposed to the NASA customer, other systems engineers, users, and software engineers to determine the operation of the system through measuring and evaluating its system performance characteristics.
• May be assigned other integration assignments within the Integration Services department to help achieve department, directorate, and contract goals.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree