IVA Spacesuit Systems Engineer

Houston, TX, USA | Full Time

The IVA Spacesuit Systems Engineer will:

• Support exploration projects as a practicing systems engineer creating development life cycle artifacts and guiding other team members in the creation of systems engineering artifacts.

• Implement systems engineering principles and practices across systems.

• Work closely with stakeholders including customers, team leads, and team members, and therefore must possess solid human spaceflight engineering technical knowledge and experience, along with excellent communication skills.

• Participate in, and support leads in guiding, activities throughout the life cycle phases of systems, from early concept development, trade studies, design, integration, testing, verification and validation, operations and through sustainment.

• Support, and lead aspects of guiding, implementing, and managing project team activities including defining system stakeholder needs, decomposing system functions, developing technical requirements, negotiating and capturing system interfaces, performing design analyses, supporting the planning and execution of system verification and validation activities, and supporting system testing and operations.

• Develop and model concepts.

• 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 TRR, CDR, SAR, etc.

• Review Hazard Analyses.

• Attend 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.

Requisition Qualifications:

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering and a minimum of 2- 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

• Experience in technology demonstrations and 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 systems as well as operations across multiple space vehicles.

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

• Experience collecting/understanding stakeholder needs.

• Experience with interface definition for complex subsystems.

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

• Experience with Test and Verification of spaceflight hardware.

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation.

Requisition Preferences:

• Electrical, mechanical, or aerospace engineering degree.

• Experience working with multiple NASA organizations and international partners. - Experience working across NASA centers.

• Experience with hardware or software development projects.

• 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.