Project Engineer​/AI&T Technical Lead

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Engineer / AI&T Technical Lead to join our JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX
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• 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
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• 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.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and normally possess 5–10 years of related experience. License and certification may be required.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical discipline.
• 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, risk lists, and technical status products.
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