Senior Crew Support Systems Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.
 
ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.
 
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world’s most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it that we are a great place to work—we were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

As Sr. Support Crew Systems Engineer you will be responsible for;

• Comprehensive design of CSS elements, including: general habitability, crew quarters (permanent and temporary), on-board communications equipment, emergency equipment, waste management, maintenance and tools, etc.
  • Familiarization of existing CSS rated documentation (Gateway, ISS, Columbus etc.)
  • Preliminary to detailed design evolution: including architecture, engineering budgets (power, data, mass, volume), and structural, thermal, electrical and data handling design, software implementation
  • Coordination with subsystems (thermal, power, electrical, ECLSS, payloads, etc.) to ensure design compatibility and interface definitions
  • Implementation of project constraints into the CSS design process, such as mass, volume or power limitations and frequently changing baselines via continuous coordination with joint venture and internal stakeholders
  • Participation in emergency response concept definition
  • Integration of CSS into aerospace crew and payload operational concept definition
  • Independent advancement of CSS internal trade-offs and analyses in a highly dynamically changing environment
  • Initiation and steering of required simulations, task analysis, and cross-discipline analyses
  • Development of verification and validation (V&V) approach
  • Development of assembly, integration and test (AIT) approach
  • Development of operations concept, logistics and redundancy and spare approach
  • Gathering, understanding and implementation of detailed design information from suppliers on specific H/W and technologies into the overall CSS design (handling of export control, corporate proprietary and ITAR related data)
  • Assessment of technological solutions from assembly to system level (e.g. regarding development time, cost, technical readiness and interactions of the complete system)CSS requirements engineering

• CSS requirements engineering
  • Derivation of CSS-related requirements from space program and system requirements
  • Screening of applicable standards and tailoring of documents to project needs
  • Definition of system and subsystem requirements with related rationales, verification matrixes and allocations
  • Translation of cross-discipline needs into CSS requirements (e.g. from Safety, Human System Integration or Payloads)
  • Breakdown of requirements for dedicated specifications and requests for proposal to industry

• Support to CSS Team Lead, project management, and chief engineering by
  • Autonomous creation, tracking and resolution of action items
  • Maintaining and updating of risk register and opportunities
  • Maintaining and updating of schedule CSS-internally and in frame of larger integrated management schedule
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