Senior ECLSS Engineer

Senior ECLSS Engineer

As Paragon Space Development celebrates 30+ years of providing award-winning life support and thermal control solutions for extreme environments, we've recognized that it is our employees that keep our business thriving. By any measure, Paragon is an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our goal is to hire the best and allow you to do the work that you enjoy!

Job Description: Senior Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) Engineer with Spacecraft ECLSS experience.

The successful candidate will report to the Chief Engineer Department Manager and be responsible for leading a small team in the development of requirements, design, build and test of spacecraft ECLS subsystems. The successful candidate will also develop and execute test plans and procedures, and generate formal documentation such as technical memorandums, analysis reports, design and development books, or product manuals.

• Oversee all aspects of product delivery for a single complicated functional assembly, or multiple simple functional assemblies.
• Integrate between products/subsystems/other departments for the assembly
• Generate Technical products as required by the IPTL or Program.
• Identify risks and opportunities
• Review products from other departments/Teams and provide technical feedback.
• Provide input to IPTL on appropriate analysis, test, and design.
• Coordinate on decisions that have impacts outside of assembly responsibilities.
• Collaborate with other teams working on similar products.
• Ensure that requirements are met by design with input from systems engineering
• Ensure that requirements are met by test plans and execution with input from systems engineering
• Provide technical support for verification authoring
• Write the performance requirements for their assembly with help from systems engineering
• Oversee test and manufacturing to design/requirements
• Support integration and operations
• Perform sustaining engineering
• Interface with the customer at the engineering level
• Manage the assembly task execution schedule

U.S. Citizenship status is required for this position.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Bio-mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent field and 10-12 years with system and/or hardware design and analysis experience
• Master's degree in Mechanical, Bio-mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent field and 8-10 years with system and/or hardware design and analysis experience
• PhD degree in Mechanical, Bio-mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent field and 6-8 years with system and/or hardware design experience in the aerospace industry.

Experience in one or more of the following discipline areas:

• Life Support System Design
• Crew Systems Design
• Crew Cabin Design
• Mechanical Design
• Mechanical Analysis
• Thermal Control System Design
• Thermal Analysis
• Human Factors

Employment is contingent on other factors, including, but not limited to, background checks and drug screens.