Integrated Avionics Lead Engineer - Support

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Responsibilities: 

The successful candidate shall provide support to the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Avionics Systems Integration Lead for the areas of integrated avionics systems engineering (hardware and software) and systems management. The successful candidate shall be responsible for assisting in leading MAV program coordination within the Space Systems Department (SSD).

Duties include, but may not be limited to, the following:

• Coordinating scheduling; coordinating meetings; tracking action items; directing planning activities and trade studies; performing systems analyses; supporting integrated hardware and software design solutions, evaluation, and test; making technical risk management assessments; coordinating technical performance measures; supporting and coordinating reviews, working groups and boards; and providing periodic status inputs to project and ES management.
  

The successful candidate shall:

• Provide engineering insight of the MAV integrated avionics in support of vendor avionics development.
  
• Draw upon all necessary government and successful candidate organizations supporting the SSD (ES) and MAV Program as appropriate to complete assigned tasks.

Specific responsibilities for the MAV Integrated Avionics (IA) Discipline Lead include but may not be limited to the following:

• Assist in the coordination of an Integrated Avionics team with members from multiple centers (MSFC, JSC, GRC, KSC, GSFC, and LaRC).
  
• Assist in defining workforce allocations in support of MAV insight.
  
• Lead weekly technical team meetings to coordinate tasks and status with all engineering subsystems and report out to MAV IA stakeholders (SE&I, S&MA, SVS Office, etc.)
  
• Provide monthly project status to MAV and ES Management (Department, Division, and Branches) regarding technical accomplishments, issues, upcoming tasks, ODC expenditures, and workforce actuals versus plan.
  
• Support Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) for aspects of MAV/Orion integrated avionics and software such as docking and ionizing radiation issues.
  
• Support monthly tag-up with MAV management to address workforce allocation, performance, and issues.
  
• Assist in developing/updating MAV