Senior Staff Engineer Chief

Category

IT and Computer Related

Full-time

$115,000 to $135,000

Bachelor's Degree

Up to 25%

None

McCallie Associates, Inc. is the prime contractor for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Systems Engineering Advanced Services II (SEAS II) contract. McCallie has an immediate need for a Sr. Staff Engineer – Chief with at least 30 years of space mission or instrument systems engineering experience to support on-going NASA space mission projects. This position is for a Deputy Mission Systems Engineer.

This position would work with the civil servant Lead Mission Systems Engineer (MSE) to help with MSE duties. These include Technical Resource Allocations, Verification and Validation Management, Instrument Interfaces. This position is a mission level position so knowledge of ground systems, operations, and spacecraft requirements and implementation are a necessity.

• The Senior Staff Engineer - Chief is a world-renowned expert in his/her primary field of expertise.
• His/her duties include: support of complex and/or technologically challenging tasks including the leadership in generating the Task Plan and Work Control Plan, providing guidance during the task implementation, conducting technology assessments and making recommendations for technology insertions, making trade study assessments, and recommendations, supporting CDR and PDR, and reviewing deliverables, providing technical consultation advice to Task Managers regarding design issues, development and test approaches, and test result assessments, leading teams established by the Program Manager to conduct investigations of programmatic or task-level problems and to make recommendations for recovery plans;
  
  and providing recommendations regarding Mission Assurance Program Implementation considerations.
• Provides world-renowned expertise in space and/or ground hardware and/or software systems analysis, design, development, integration, test, validation, and orbital operations.

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent education and experience in engineering, or computer science or mathematics from an accredited institution is required.
• Thirty (30) years of space/ground system design and development experience including at least fifteen (15) years of experience analyzing system and performance requirements.
• Should have an extensive knowledge in the development and/or implementation of space/ground hardware and/or software systems.

• Strong background in requirements management, interface requirements, requirements validation, verification, top-level verification planning, integration and test.
• Experience in end-to-end mission requirements traceability and validation.
• Experience with NASA policies and procedures regarding program/project management life cycles and systems engineering.
• Experience with database tools, requirements management and system architecture tools.
• Experience with the NASA system requirements tools such as DOORS.
• Experience with testing methodologies and test planning activities.
• Experience with NASA Risk Management Guidelines and Processes and Tools.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) software tools.

• Currently hold or ability to obtain a NASA Goddard badge (NACI background investigation) is required.

Afognak Native Corporation and Afognak’s direct and indirect subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and affiliates to include Alutiiq, LLC;
Afognak Commercial Group, LLC;
Alutiiq Professional Consulting, LLC; and each of their respective domestic and foreign, direct and indirect subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and affiliates are equal opportunity employers that do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws (collectively, “Protected Status”).

Our full range of benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability protection, life insurance, prescription coverage, voluntary benefits, paid leave, and 401(k) retirement. Positions covered by the McNamara O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), or a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), or Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will comply with the statute or CBA requirements as well as other client–customer contract requirements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

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