2026 Human Spaceflight Engineer

Building on The Aerospace Corporation's reputation as a trusted, impartial advisor with integrity and dedication to mission success, the Civil Systems Group (CSG) combines deep technical expertise with market-leading innovation to help our customers solve complex systems engineering and integration challenges. CSG is organized by core customer-facing lines of business to manage and grow programs within NASA, NOAA, and the NNSA, while extending our capabilities to other civilian federal government agencies fully integrated within Aerospace rules, regulations, processes, values, and behaviors. 

We are looking for a Human Spaceflight Engineer (Associate Member of Technical Staff - Systems Engineering). This position will support various NASA programs integrating activities and serving in various program office roles.  M2M provides agency leadership for the development, analysis, integration, and implementation of human spaceflight architectures, mission plans, operational activities and spacecraft/surface system definitions. In this role, you will coordinate and collaborate across Artemis transportation and Moonbase to develop and address matters for inflight, orbital and surface operations. 

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time on-site at our facility in Houston, TX

What You’ll Be Doing  

• Serve in the program office and be a connector across exploration topics for moonbase, nuclear, science and Artemis transportation initiatives  

• Define operational technical requirements for the various programs  

• Perform assessments, readiness evaluations  

• Collaborate with NASA mission architects/designers and program experts across government and industry  

• Review contractor deliverables and NASA requirements to ensure compliance and system effectiveness to support operational needs  

• Contribute to standards development and documentation supporting exploration operations, in addition to management of key program plans/products  

• Support facility and infrastructure related topics and planning   

• Participate in technical, safety, and integration of working groups   

• Develop technical and progress reports to support internal teams and external partners  

• Support technical interchange meetings, hardware reviews, and key design milestones   

• Prepare clear, actionable reports and presentations for program offices 

What You Need to be Successful – Member of Technical Staff- Systems Engineering 

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems engineering, physics, or another related STEM discipline (pursuing or conferred within the last 12 months)

• 0 - 1 year of industry experience

• Entry level or project experience in human exploration architecture, integration and mission operations   

• Knowledge and understanding of the engineering program life cycle  

• Demonstrated initiative and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders  

• Strong presentation and communications skills, including the ability to effectively use oral and written communication to express technical concepts and recommendations to personnel at all technical and managerial levels 

• Ability to work across diverse teams and multiple engineering disciplines, including human in the loop disciplines  

• This position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance  

• Transcripts required for this position

How You Can Stand Out  

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these: 

• Advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems engineering, physics, or ano