Senior Systems Engineer

Our Company•Marshall Space Flight Center, AL

About The Position

Cepeda Systems and Software Analysis is seeking a Senior Cross Program Integration Engineer to support NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The role provides engineering integration services across Artemis mission elements and programs, including SLS, Orion, and xEVA. The engineer supports operations and hardware capability definition, requirements development and verification planning, and coordination of technical requirements and interfaces across program teams. The position also involves technical assessment, functional architecting and analysis, interface documentation, change package reviews, and cross-program exchanges of data, hardware, and software.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science field.
At least 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree with at least 5 years of experience.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Understanding of vehicle systems definition, functional requirement development, and/or design integration.
Ability to break down complex problems or issues into manageable pieces to facilitate resolution of technical concerns.
Experience reading and working with engineering drawings, interface control documents, configuration documents, or other technical documentation.
Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, customer-relations, and presentation skills.
Experience negotiating and coordinating top-level interface or integration agreements.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of NASA systems engineering policies and procedures.
Familiarity with the Artemis Program.

Responsibilities

Support coordination of operations and hardware capability design definition, requirements development, and verification planning for proposed systems.
Work with Level 2 and Level 3 teams to ensure requirements and integration aspects are defined, negotiated, and documented.
Coordinate with Artemis Programs on operations definition, analysis-cycle data, function- and requirement-specific assessments, issue resolution, and integration ground rules and assumptions.
Coordinate mission-unique analyses with analysis teams, including loads and environments, particularly for visiting-vehicle interactions.
Identify design options within the solution space and lead or support functional architecting and functional analyses.
Assess proposed internal and external interactions, requirements, planning, and execution to understand impacts from external design and product development or updates.
Generate and coordinate Interface Requirement Document (IRD) and Interface Control Document (ICD) content as needed to support complete integration of requirements.
Act as Change Package Engineer as needed, coordinating reviews of interface and related documentation and potentially presenting at working groups, forums, and boards.
Facilitate cross-program exchanges of data, hardware, and software as needed.