Project Engineer​/AI&T Technical Lead

Job Description - Project Engineer / AI&T Technical Lead (ADV
000CP
M)

We are seeking a Project Engineer / Assembly, Integration, and Test Technical Lead to support the development, build, integration, test, and flight support of a Suit Mass Simulator for Launch Environment Characterization Testing on the Human Landing System lander.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical discipline.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to brief project leadership, coordinate with subsystem owners, and document technical decisions.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced project environment with evolving requirements, tight schedules, and multiple stakeholders.

• Experience with NASA-JSC flight hardware build, test, and integration processes.
• Experience supporting human spaceflight programs, exploration…