System Engineer - Mars Surface and Mars Transit

Systems Engineer - Mars Surface and Mars Transit

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center
Status: Full Time

Clearance: Background check

U.S. Citizenship required

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer - Mars Surface and Mars Transit to join our Space Division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, development, review, and maintenance of requirements and verification plans.
• Generating the Concept of Operations (ConOps).
• Prepares materials for the system life cycle phasing, including SRR (System Readiness Review), Preliminary Design
  Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) and presents the material.
• Identifies risks, develops risk statements, and plans risk responses.
• Performs and reviews system level architecture trade studies and analyses that will influence the overall system design
  and performance.
• Develops certification and acceptance test plans.
• Supports Test and Verification (T&V) activities.
• Tracks and organizes materials for project meetings and reviews.
• Identifies and engages with stakeholders.
• Works in a small team environment, and reports to project manager for technical support, task assignment, and
  processes.
• Performs job functions based on pre-established guidelines or instructions.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Maintains a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors.
• Performs other tasks assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in the field or in a related area.

• Experience with the development of space systems requirements documents including the Project Technical
  Requirements Specification (PTRS) and Verification and Validation documents (V&VD), and Interface Control Document
  (ICD).

• Basic knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures in the space hardware field, such as
  mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, material selection, and design software and
  tools.

• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.

• Familiarity with SharePoint and Microsoft Office products.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• Experience with the design, assembly, verification, testing, and operation of space hardware.
• Experience with NASA JSC Flight Hardware Life Cycle, Certification, and Engineering processes.
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.
• Working knowledge of NASA and JSC standard practices and requirements including safety, fault tolerance, and unique
  disciplines.
• Familiarity with NASA/JSC documentation databases and typical systems engineering products.