Senior Systems Engineer, Pressurized Lunar Rover

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. 

NASA JSC Engineering is seeking a passionate and highly motivated individual to fill the position of Senior Systems Engineer on the Pressurized Lunar Rover project.  In this position you will work closely with Lead Systems Engineer and the Project Systems Engineering team as well as internal, external and international stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems engineering, system integration, risk management, and testing & verification. Flexibility will be key as, this position's roles and responsibilities could evolve as the project moves through various lifecycle phases. 

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Senior Systems Engineer for the Pressurized Lunar Rover, acting as the technical lead for requirements and MBSE activities across the SE team.

• Provide technical direction and mentorship to junior and mid-level systems engineers, ensuring consistent application of systems engineering best practices.

• Provide technical leadership for requirements development, allocation, flow-down, and traceability across Pressurized Lunar Rover systems and subsystems.

• Develop, review, and maintain system and subsystem specifications, including Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs) and Interface Control Documents (ICDs).

• Own and manage requirements baselines using requirements management tools such as Jama and DOORS Next Generation (DNG).

• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods to support architecture definition, functional decomposition, interface definition, and requirements traceability.

• Ensure requirements are clear, verifiable, and testable, and aligned with project architecture and mission objectives.

• Provide technical leadership for the development and review of verification plans, verification matrices, and verification reports.

• Coordinate with integration, discipline, and test engineers to resolve requirements issues and close verification gaps.

• Support major lifecycle reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.) from a requirements, MBSE, and verification perspective.

• Participate in technical decision-making, trade studies, and risk assessments impacting requirements and system architecture.​

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 may be expected to have a related master’s degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.

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