Systems Engineer - IATF

Create Your Career:

Grow With Us

Your growth matters to us—that’s why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, mentoring, and company sponsored networking events, you can take control of your own career path on your own terms with a company that believes in you.

A Place Where You Belong

People are at the heart of our business. We reflect a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. We expect our people, clients, and partners to treat one another with dignity and respect. This means promoting inclusion, celebrating diversity, and appreciating the differences we all bring to our workplace.

Support Your Well-Being

Our comprehensive benefits package includes wellness programs, 11 paid holidays, paid time off, employee perks and much more. With these benefits, plus the option for flexible schedules and possible remote a few days a week (depending on customer requirements) we’ll support you as you pursue a balanced, fulfilling life—at work and at home.

Position Description:

The Systems Engineer will provide Systems Engineering (SE), systems requirements management, and Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) support to the MSFC Integrated Avionics Test Facility (IATF) in support of the Space Launch System (SLS) Program. IATF spans across the Systems Engineering, Software Development, and the Avionics and Software Test Facility Branches under the Flight and Ground Software and Simulation Division (ES50). The selected candidate will have knowledge of complex systems engineering life cycle end-to-end development, ranging from requirements development, functional design, hardware integration, and requirements verification. 

This is a mid-level position. Activities associated with this position include but are not limited to the following:

• Support the Systems Engineering Lead in evaluating stakeholder needs, characterizing technical VV&A objectives, and utilizing system engineering practices to solve stakeholder issues.
• Develop and maintain detailed verification objectives and verification success criterion for NASA IATF requirements.
• Support coordination of planning and activities required for requirement verification, software accreditation, facility certification, and system validation of hardware in the loop (HWIL) facilities.
• Plan and manage verification activities required to verify compliance with IATF requirements during development, integration, testing and evaluation.
• Support development of IATF requirements and verification products to define the design of multiple IATF products utilizing a common requirements baseline.
• Coordinate technical interchange meetings between NASA and prime contractor teams to achieve IATF HWIL Verification, Validation, & Accreditation (VV&A).
• Perform systems engineering tasks and assessments following NASA and MSFC standards to support the SLS.
• Program through reviews, meetings, working groups, trade studies and development of key systems engineering products to support program milestones.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, best practices and lessons-learned related to products, technical positions, requirement management, and verification and validation (V&V) practices.
• Develop integrated schedules and other tracking mechanisms to manage systems engineering tasks.