Senior Controls & Facility Engineer

Astrion • Mountain View, CA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Astrion is hiring a Senior Controls & Facility Engineer to support the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The role provides technical leadership and operational support for the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT), including wind-tunnel control systems, facility troubleshooting, test-section systems, and daily operations. The engineer will support operational readiness, commissioning, troubleshooting, system upgrades, and project leadership for large government engineering programs.

The position leads or contributes to modernization work involving control-system replacement, safety-system upgrades, mechanical and electrical refurbishment, facility automation, and tunnel-performance improvements. It also covers requirements development, verification and validation, hazard remediation, interface management, risk mitigation, and engineering design and testing across multiple technical domains. The role is full-time and on-site, with travel as needed, and requires a federal background check.

Requirements

• 20+ years of relevant experience in controls engineering, wind-tunnel operations, instrumentation, complex facility management, or large-scale mechanical/electrical systems.
• Demonstrated expertise with wind-tunnel control logic, including pressure control, isolation systems, HWSS, IGV control, and supervisory state-flow systems.
• A BS or MS degree in mechanical or electrical engineering from an accredited institution.
• Competency with control-systems tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, MATRIXx/SystemBuild, Ovation, and AutoCAD, and with failure-analysis methodologies.
• Proven project engineering and project-management experience on multi-million-dollar government or industry engineering programs.
• Ability to manage technical specification development, commissioning, and integrated system testing.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with a history of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Federal background check required.
• Travel as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineering license in California or equivalent.
• Prior NASA Ames wind-tunnel or aeronautics test-facility experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and operational support for UPWT, including control-systems engineering, facility troubleshooting, test-section systems, and daily operations.
• Lead or contribute to modernization projects involving control-system replacement, safety-system upgrades, mechanical and electrical refurbishment, facility automation, and tunnel-performance improvements.
• Conduct requirements development, verification and validation, hazard remediation, interface management, and risk identification and mitigation.
• Perform detailed design, analysis, modeling, and systems testing across mechanical, structural, electrical, and control domains.
• Prepare technical documentation, test procedures, project reports, white papers, and trade studies to support funding justification and decision-making.

What This Job Offers

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