Space Environments Engineer (ADV000CN1)
About The Position
This position will assist the Space Environments Team at the MSFC Natural Environments Branch through providing support to the space environments program leads. Specific support to be provided includes, but is not limited to, the following: Coordinate and interface with programs and project teams and personnel in reviews, meetings, technical interchange meetings, technical performance meetings, teleconferences, working groups, and trade studies. Provide space environments expertise to programs and projects, including consultation on space environments specifications and updates. Perform oversight/insight activities to ensure subsystem and spacecraft designs are implementing space environment program requirements. Review delivered products to verify they sufficiently document the environment definition and implementation in design, testing, and analysis. Provide information and deliverables for key systems engineering program/project milestones. Develop, prepare, and deliver technical programmatic briefings, as requested. Coordinate with space environments subject matter experts for technical support, analysis, product reviews, and environments development. Report to program leadership on technical milestones and accomplishments on a regularly approved basis. Evaluate risk implications and communicate risk at the program level. Assist in the book management of the Design Specification for Natural Environments. Analyzing space environment parameters with respect to program needs.
Requirements
- A degree in physics, space science, or a related science or engineering discipline is required.
- Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a BS with 5-9 years of experience, a master’s with 3-7 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D.
- Experience and interest in both space environments and systems engineering is highly desired.
- Familiarity with the systems engineering life cycle end-to-end development ranging from requirements development, functional design, hardware integration, requirement verification, and flight readiness that ultimately lead to flight hardware certification.
- Knowledge of the development and documentation of requirements, processes, and/or procedures associated with aerospace flight and ground hardware design, development, production, test, verification, evaluation, integration, and/or operations.
- Knowledge of natural space environments applicable to human spaceflight missions, such as ionizing radiation, space plasma, lunar surface properties, etc.
- Experience participating in project lifecycle reviews
- Intermediate skills using scripting or program languages (Matlab, Python, C++, etc.) for file type reformatting or plotting of data for visualization and presentation.
- Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams & Outlook) are required.
- Excellent written and oral technical communication skills, with the ability to clearly define and describe a technical subject to peers across various engineering disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience developing and delivering project briefings.
- Experience negotiating and collaborating to resolve complex technical problems and breaking down complex problems or issues into manageable pieces.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and effective team player with customer relation skills, familiar with working in a dynamic work environment.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of NASA’s Human Landing System, its Elements, Interfaces, and Mission Configurations.
- Knowledge of the Artemis Program.
- Experience with the Gateway, Human Landing System, International Space Station, Space Launch System, Orion, or other similar space vehicles and programs is highly desired.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and interface with programs and project teams and personnel in reviews, meetings, technical interchange meetings, technical performance meetings, teleconferences, working groups, and trade studies.
- Provide space environments expertise to programs and projects, including consultation on space environments specifications and updates.
- Perform oversight/insight activities to ensure subsystem and spacecraft designs are implementing space environment program requirements.
- Review delivered products to verify they sufficiently document the environment definition and implementation in design, testing, and analysis.
- Provide information and deliverables for key systems engineering program/project milestones.
- Develop, prepare, and deliver technical programmatic briefings, as requested.
- Coordinate with space environments subject matter experts for technical support, analysis, product reviews, and environments development.
- Report to program leadership on technical milestones and accomplishments on a regularly approved basis.
- Evaluate risk implications and communicate risk at the program level.
- Assist in the book management of the Design Specification for Natural Environments.
- Analyzing space environment parameters with respect to program needs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
