Senior Space Environments Engineer

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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 Senior Space Environments Engineer (Senior Project Engineer- Engineering Program Management & Systems Engineering). This position serves as the Space Environments Sr. Engineer on behalf of NASA’s EVA & Human Surface Mobility Program (EHP) System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) Team at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).  This position works side-by-side with our NASA EHP SE&I counterparts and other NASA Contractors as a Team to enable NASA’s Moon-to-Mars campaign in the return of human presence with a sustained lunar exploration architecture.    

Work Model 

This is a full-time position located at Johnson Space Center, TX, offering a hybrid work model that combines 3-4 regular onsite workdays and remote flexibility as the business needs allow. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Perform Environmental Risk Management assessments on NASA’s behalf. Collaborate with other NASA System Managers and Program Engineers to help identify and/or reduce Risks (Safety, Cost, Mission Success) and recommend means of mitigation. 
• Review of Designs with Project Management perspective to include identifying gaps in requirements and architecture, needs for integrated and cross-program analysis, risks, and test activities in the correct environmental conditions. Identify requirement gaps and update existing requirements based on informed data. 
• Manage Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and Human Surface Mobility Program (EHP) Induced Environments document and its Annexes, which will contain Design Reference Mission (DRM) specific analysis results.  Define Verification methodologies in which requirements can be reasonably validated by NASA Vendors. Develop and coordinate documentation change packages, including stakeholder review and technical interchange meetings for technical issue resolution. 
• Review verification content upon receipt from NASA’s vendors for compliance with established NASA requirements. Identify potential non-compliances or non-standard methodologies used in verification submittals.  Assess alternative verification evidence or acceptance rationale provided by vendors and projects for variances to requirements. 
• Lead analyses activities with new Artemis Design Reference Missions. Support analyses, trades, and decision package development for resolution of EVA architectural options and EVA requirements. 
• Review EHP and Moon-to-Mars (M2M) documents and milestone deliverables. 
• Lead Surface Environments Integration Working Group (WG) and