Senior Systems Engineer

Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is looking for 2 experienced Systems Engineer to support a customer with a pressurized rover mission! The pressurized rover will greatly expand our ability to explore, conduct science research, and live and work on the lunar surface by providing a home for astronauts away from the base camp for extended periods of time.
Location: Remote w/travel (Japan, Johnson Space Center)Contract position: 3-5 years

Responsibilities

• In coordination with the Project Lead Systems Engineer, and project systems engineering team performs systems engineering and technical integration across the lifecycle of the project in concert with internal, external, and international organizations.  Roles, responsibilities, and tasks are expected to evolve over the lifecycle of the project as the project evolves.  Activities may include but are not limited to:  
• Technical integration and leadership across disciplines
• Leadership of technical teams in the planning, execution and on time completion of design analysis cycles and trade studies
• Supports the project’s systems engineering structures and processes that lead to a certified vehicle
• Systems engineering process development, tailoring, and management
• Architecture definition and functional flows
• Requirements definition, flow-down, assessment, and verification planning
• Plans, develops, and executes major project reviews and leads internal project reviews
• Interface definition and management
• Integrated analysis and margin management
• Technical baseline product management (MEL, PEL, THEL, Mass Properties)
• Collaborative environment development, maintenance, and implementation
• Critical path and technical risk management
• System hardware and software configuration management over lifecycle 
• Data management
• Discrepancy management and participation in material/failure review boards
• Certification and acceptance package generation
• Test campaign planning and execution:
• test interface and environment definition and management
• technical integration leadership and issue resolution across disciplines
• lead development and deployment of special test equipment
• test anomaly investigation and disposition
• pre-and post-test review leadership
• test schedule management
• day of test execution
• Coordination and management of qualification and acceptance test requirement definition, assessment, and flow-down from system to unit (component) level
• Support hardware owners in establishing overall hardware qualification and acceptance test planning to meet applicable requirements
• Test and verification leadership with emphasis on environmental, human in the loop, and interface testing
• Technical review of verification products (test plans, procedures, reports)
• Support failure analysis reviews to identify impacts and/or recommend changes to test programs 
• Support and make recommendations regarding retest of hardware (e.g. for redesign, repair, new environments)
• Seeks opportunities for innovation to improve cost, schedule, technical performance, and safety within the project and program.  Partners these opportunities with the Project Lead Systems Engineer.

Required:

• Required Characteristics
• Knowledge of and previous experience in delivering flight hardware at the project or program level
• Systems engineering experience
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Desirable, but not required
• SharePoint Experience
• Experience working with international partners
• Experience applying the Doors and MagicDraw Tools within multi-level programs.

Other:

• Occasional support of international meetings in the evenings from approximately 18:30 to 21:00 Central Time may be required.
• Occasional international travel may be required.
• OGE-450 and/or ability to be cleared for procurement sensitive discussions may be required
• Colocation with project team on site at JSC is required.  

Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge researc