Systems Engineer

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center | Avionic Systems Division
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? If you are, we need you!

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer to join the team with Intuitive Machines, a teammate company. As a Systems Engineer for HLS Mission Planning, you will work with NASA JSC Engineering's EX2 Branch and HLS Program Management to define NASA's HLS mission activities on the moon as part of the Artemis program.

• Develop concepts and define future human space exploration vehicles and missions.
• Study future Lunar mission campaigns, evaluating constraints across multiple space vehicles such as Gateway, Orion
  and HLS.
• Work on requirements definition, flow-down, assessment and verification.
• Work on the development of concept of operations, software Verification and Validation (V&V) plans.
• Work with team members to identify risks, develop risk statements and responses.
• Review documentation for major milestone reviews such as CBR, PDR, CDR, etc.
• Review Hazard Analyses.
• Attend HLS Project meetings and provide meeting summaries to technical leads.
• Work on trade studies and participate in stakeholder reviews.
• Work in a team environment.
• Report to the team lead to provide status on progress, issues and requests for support.
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer, other NASA support contractors and the HLS commercial
  partners.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

• Experience in early program concept development and formulation.

• Experience with requirements development, design trades, development of Concept of Operations, risk analysis, and
  system analysis of space hardware.

• Experience creating concepts for operations of single vehicle systems as well as operations across multiple space
  vehicles.

• Experience with technology roadmap development and creating technology infusion plans.

• Experience collecting/understanding stakeholder needs.

• Experience with interface definition for vehicle subsystems.

• Experience with interface definitions between multiple vehicles or elements of a mission.

• Experience creating configuration growth or evolution plans and defining incremental capabilities for a mission
  sequence.

• Ability to define mission sequences both within a single mission and across multiple missions.

• Experience with Test and Verification of spaceflight hardware.

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation.

• Electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering degree.

• Experience working with multiple NASA organizations.

• Experience working across NASA centers.

• Experience with hardware or software development projects.

• Experience with space mission analysis (e.g., orbit analysis, delta-V budgets, spacecraft constraint evaluation).

• Familiarity with human space exploration systems (for example Orion, Commercial Crew, ISS, EMU/xEMU).

• 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, and material selection for engineering
  products.

• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.

• Familiarity with system architecture tools such as DoDAF, TODAF, etc.