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MbSolutions Inc

Systems Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer to join the JETSII Contract ...

ASRC Federal

Senior Project Support Specialist - Earth Science Division, NASA HQ 300 E St SW, Washington, DC ... engineering, system integration, and project management services supporting mission-critical ...

HX5 LLC

Aerospace Cybersecurity Engineer

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Aerospace Cybersecurity Engineer Systems Engineer IV NASA Glenn Research Center Brook Park, Ohio HX5 is an award-winning provider of engineering, research and development, and technical services to ...

Vantage Systems Inc

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Join us as we forge ahead, combining our expertise with NASA's legacy of excellence to shape the ... The Aerospace Engineer (Engineer V) provides, at a senior level, systems engineering, mission ...

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Senior Test Systems Engineer

Golden, CO · On-site

$107K - $147K/yr

As a Senior Test Systems Engineer for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) program, you will ... Take the #NextLeap with Lunar Outpost and work on the Pegasus LTV, which will carry NASA astronauts ...

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AspectSenior Nasa Systems EngineerSystems Engineer
CredentialsBachelor's or Master's in Engineering, often with security clearancesBachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
Work EnvironmentNASA projects, aerospace, government agenciesVarious industries including aerospace, defense, technology
ResponsibilitiesLeading complex systems, integrating NASA-specific requirementsDesigning, developing, and testing systems

The main difference is that a Senior Nasa Systems Engineer specializes in NASA projects with specific security and technical requirements, often leading complex systems integration. A Systems Engineer has a broader role across industries, focusing on system design and development without the specialized NASA context.

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Systems Engineer

Houston, TX • On-site

MbSolutions Inc
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Job description

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer to join the JETSII Contract with Nexus, a teammate company.
As a Systems Engineer, you will work with NASA JSC Engineering's EX2 Branch and Orion Program Management to define NASA's Orion's mission activities on the moon as part of the Artemis program.
This work may include:
  • Work as an Orion Mission Planner and analyst by being responsible for the coordination and technical integration of the Orion spacecraft vehicle performance, limitations, and mission readiness.
  • Perform technical integration of cross-system issues, including developing issue resolution plans, determining technical/cost/schedule impacts, and recommending courses of action to minimize impacts to the overall vehicle.
  • Coordinate technical engineering integration with other elements for the Orion Program Office, the prime contractor, European Space
  • Agency, hardware owners, NASA system managers, and integrated vehicle performance and other centers and programs.
  • Participate in Orion Program review boards, technical interchanges, and other technical boards and forums providing expert technical guidance regarding the spacecraft capability and mission design.
  • Coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines in support of spacecraft performance and mission planning trade studies.
  • Provide a status of technical assistance activities, communicates to Program management and team leads, elevates issues, and recommends mitigations to the Orion Program while communicating with the appropriate systems leads, Technical Authorities and line management.
  • Coordinate all activities through the Mission Planning and Analysis Lead.
  • Understand mission concept of operations, mission objectives, and spacecraft systems.
  • 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 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.
  • 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 Orion 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 minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering and normally possess 5 - 10 years of related experience. License and certification may be required.
  • 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.

Requisition Preferences:
  • 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.

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