Systems Engineer- Gravity Offloader #24239

Job Description:

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! 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 - Gravity Offloader to join our team.

This position is a blend of Systems Engineering and Project Engineering for NASA's Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS), a reduced gravity simulator robot, and its next-generation ARGOS exploration EVA Simulator (AXES).

Duties will include the following:

• Responsible for the planning, development, review, and maintenance of requirements and verification plans.
• Responsible for procedure development (test, assembly, and operations).
• Prepare materials for the system life cycle phasing and requirements reviews.
• Identify risks, develop risk statements, and plans risk responses.
• Place and carefully track progress of procurements.
• Support Test and Verification (T&V) activities.
• Track and organize materials for project meetings and reviews (i.e. System Acceptance Review, Operational Readiness Review).
• Identify and engage with stakeholders.
• Frequently perform hands-on hardware testing.
• Report to the project manager for technical support, task assignment, and processes.
• Support hardware troubleshooting to investigate mechanical and electrical failures within hardware or test support hardware.
• Generate essential paperwork and documents for tasks assigned.
• Perform job functions based on pre-established guidelines or instructions.
• Maintains a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors.
• Performs other tasks assigned.

Requisition Qualifications:

• 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 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.

Requisition Preferences:

• Experience with the design, assembly, verification, testing, and operation of hardware.
• Experience with NASA JSC 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

Certification Requirements: N/A

Education Requirements:

• 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.

Work Type:

OnSite- Houston, TX

Clearance Requirements:

Public Trust * If you hold a clearance, we will maintain your clearance status, regardless of the type you hold