Software Engineer & Image Analyst (JR110526A-20)

JBS Solutions•Huntsville, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

JBS Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer & Image Analyst to support the Engineering Photographic Analysis (EPA) Team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center under the Engineering Services and Science Capability (ESSCA) contract. The role provides software engineering, database management, computer systems support, and engineering imagery analysis capabilities for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program. The position’s primary focus is maintaining, troubleshooting, enhancing, and developing specialized software applications, databases, websites, servers, and supporting systems used in engineering imagery analysis. The successful candidate will work with NASA engineers, imagery analysts, software developers, and other technical specialists to support imagery collected during ground testing, launch operations, and flight. The work supports engineering assessments, identification and documentation of significant events and potential anomalies, mission assurance, and crew and vehicle safety. In addition to software and systems responsibilities, the candidate will contribute to engineering imagery processing and analysis, including post-launch reviews of SLS ascent imagery. The role calls for a technically versatile professional who can independently resolve issues in established systems, implement sustainable enhancements, and collaborate across a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline.
At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in software development, application maintenance, database management, or related computer science and engineering disciplines.
Experience developing and maintaining applications using C# and .NET, including object-oriented programming and software troubleshooting.
Experience with SQL programming and relational database management, including database design, query development, data manipulation, and maintenance.
Experience developing or maintaining desktop applications, web applications, software services, or APIs.
Familiarity with digital imagery, video processing, or other scientific and engineering data-processing applications.
Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Must be a U.S. citizen; proof of U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Fifteen or more years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, computer science, database management, scientific computing, or related technical disciplines.
Demonstrated ability to independently maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance established software applications and database systems with minimal supervision.
Experience developing web-based applications using ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, or similar technologies.
Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, or comparable relational database systems, including administration, security, user permissions, and performance optimization.
Experience deploying, administering, and maintaining servers, websites, databases, web services, and RESTful APIs.
Experience developing scientific, engineering, image-processing, or data-analysis software.
Familiarity with image-processing applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, FFmpeg, HandBrake, or GIMP.
Experience developing image-processing algorithms for video stabilization, image alignment, geometric correction, image enhancement, feature tracking, or motion analysis.
Understanding of digital-imaging principles, including resolution, exposure, frame rate, sensor characteristics, lens parameters, image orientation, metadata, and file formats.
Familiarity with camera calibration, intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters, image-distortion modeling, and timing synchronization.
Experience with engineering photographic analysis, photogrammetry, high-speed imaging, or aerospace imagery analysis.
Familiarity with professional video and broadcast equipment, including video recorders, HD-SDI routing systems, video switches, format converters, and digital capture devices.
Experience integrating imagery data with engineering telemetry or other technical data sources.
Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and their appropriate application in technical environments.
Experience maintaining and modernizing legacy software applications and databases.
Experience supporting small, multidisciplinary engineering teams with overlapping software development, system maintenance, and technical-analysis responsibilities.
Previous experience supporting NASA programs, aerospace engineering organizations, flight-test activities, or mission-critical engineering systems.
Self-motivated, technically versatile, attentive to detail, and able to exercise sound engineering judgment and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance custom software applications, tools, and libraries for engineering imagery analysis.
Maintain the reliability and functionality of existing software applications and implement improvements as requirements evolve.
Develop and maintain image-processing applications for video playback, stabilization, image alignment, perspective correction, distortion modeling, image enhancement, and motion analysis.
Develop, troubleshoot, and maintain desktop and web applications, websites, software services, and APIs.
Evaluate existing software and implement improvements to reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.
Maintain and modernize legacy applications and supporting technologies while preserving engineering analysis capabilities.
Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and machine-learning tools, for potential use in software development and imagery analysis, using appropriate technical validation and independent judgment.
Design, develop, administer, and maintain relational databases for imagery analysis, metadata management, engineering assessments, and reporting.
Develop and maintain database structures, tables, relationships, queries, user permissions, and supporting documentation.
Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain servers supporting databases, websites, software services, and API endpoints.
Investigate and resolve software, database, and computer-system issues to maintain critical engineering analysis capabilities.
Develop queries, compile statistics, and generate technical reports supporting engineering analysis, application performance, and database usage.
Maintain software requirements, database definitions, interface specifications, configuration documentation, and data-management procedures.
Support integration and interoperability among imagery-analysis applications, databases, and engineering systems.
Develop and apply software tools and image-processing techniques for engineering analysis of still imagery, video, film, and high-speed digital imagery.
Process, manipulate, enhance, stabilize, align, and correlate imagery from multiple camera systems.
Support evaluation of camera characteristics, image orientation, lens parameters, image timing, metadata, and other factors affecting imagery interpretation.
Assist analysts in identifying, classifying, characterizing, and documenting significant engineering events, anomalies, and vehicle behavior.
Support correlation of imagery timing and observations with other engineering data sources.
Participate in post-launch reviews of SLS ascent imagery for engineering assessments, anomaly investigations, and crew and vehicle safety.
Prepare or contribute to technical assessments, analysis products, and reports documenting engineering observations and findings.
Collaborate with imagery analysts, engineers, software developers, and technical stakeholders to identify requirements and develop software solutions.
Investigate complex technical problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement practical, sustainable solutions.
Develop and maintain software documentation, technical procedures, interface definitions, requirements, and configuration records.
Communicate technical findings, recommendations, and assessments through reports, presentations, and technical discussions.
Support knowledge transfer, process improvements, and continuity of engineering imagery-analysis capabilities.
Work independently and collaboratively to prioritize software maintenance, problem resolution, and new development.