Project Engineer​/AI&T Technical Lead; BT

Position: Project Engineer/ AI&T Technical Lead (BT-26117)
The Project Engineer/Assembly, Integration & Test Technical Lead will support the space program located in Houston, Texas (77058).

You will join a multidisciplinary team responsible for designing, integrating, and operating complex test systems that simulate spacecraft and planetary environments. This role is suited for candidates enthusiastic about hands‑on engineering, control system integration, laboratory testing, and supporting technology development for human spaceflight.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Lead the Assembly, Integration, and Test effort for the Suit Mass Simulator, including planning, coordination, execution, and technical oversight of hardware build and test activities.

* Coordinate the assembly of Suit Mass Simulator components, subcomponents, and subsystems, ensuring proper configuration, documentation, inspection, and readiness for integration.

* Lead integration of the Suit Mass Simulator hardware with itself and with vehicle interfaces, including HLS lander systems such as Command and Data Handling, structures, power, mechanical interfaces, instrumentation, and related support equipment.

* Develop and maintain AI&T plans, build flows, test flows, integration schedules, risk items, open work tracking, and readiness criteria.

* Coordinate across engineering disciplines, including systems engineering, mechanical, electrical, avionics, software, instrumentation, operations, safety, quality, configuration management, and test teams.

* Support development and execution of hardware test plans, test procedures, verification activities, functional checks, interface tests, and integrated system tests.

* Ensure hardware build and test activities are performed in accordance with NASA-JSC flight hardware standards (EA-WI-023) project requirements, safety expectations, configuration management practices, and quality processes.

* Support readiness reviews, test readiness reviews, integration reviews, procedure reviews, and other technical milestone reviews.

* Track and resolve technical issues, discrepancies, nonconformances, integration conflicts, and test anomalies.

* Coordinate with vehicle, payload, and mission stakeholders to ensure Suit Mass Simulator requirements, interfaces, constraints, and data collection objectives are understood and properly implemented.

* Support development of operational products required for flight test execution, including test objectives, data collection plans, telemetry/data needs, constraints, troubleshooting plans, and post-test data review support.

* Provide real-time or near-real-time technical support during in-flight test activities while the Suit Mass Simulator is collecting launch environment characterization data.

* Communicate technical status, risks, schedule impacts, resource needs, and decision points to project leadership and stakeholders.

* Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED:

This position has been posted at multiple levels (must meet minimum level indicated). Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

* This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.

* Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical discipline.

* Must have 5+ years of recent and related work experience.

* Experience supporting NASA, aerospace, defense, or complex flight-like hardware development, integration, and test.

* Demonstrated experience with hardware assembly, integration, test planning, test execution, and anomaly resolution.

* Understanding of flight hardware build discipline, including configuration control, quality processes, procedure-driven work, inspection points, and documentation requirements.

* Experience coordinating across multiple technical disciplines and managing complex hardware/software/mechanical/electrical interfaces.

* Ability to lead technical work in a matrixed environment where contributors may report through different organizations.

* Ability to develop and maintain build plans, test plans, schedules, action item trackers,…