Space Environment Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration and avionics development? Join our diverse, mission‑driven team!

We need your creativity, teamwork, and diverse perspectives to help build systems that enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth.

Join us as we tackle exciting challenges for NASA’s deep‑space missions. Amentum is NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider, working together with centers across the United States.

The JETS Space Environments team is seeking a Space Environments Engineer to join Intuitive Machines, a teammate company to provide multidisciplinary technical analysis/modeling and systems engineering support to NASA JSC across programs like Moon Base, Artemis, HLS, CLDP, and SR-1.

• Provide support to NASA programs in the definition of natural and induced space environments, including with multidisciplinary analysis and modeling, working in concert with NASA civil servants and designated contractors
• Develop and update semi-empirical and theoretical models of processes relevant to spacecraft natural and induced environments
• Analyze/model molecular and particulate contamination sources, including lunar dust, and transport from materials out gassing, vacuum venting, and rocket engine and thruster pluming processes onto spacecraft, elements, and payloads
• Analyze optical property impacts from molecular and particulate contamination, including lunar dust, and exposure to orbital and lunar surface environments (e.g., to ultraviolet radiation, ionizing radiation, and atomic oxygen)
• Analyze/model plasma effects, spacecraft charging, radiation transport and effects on hardware
• Assess compatibility of spacecraft hardware with natural and induced space environments
• Provide systems engineering support in space environments requirements and verification plan development as well as requirement and verification activities throughout the life of a program
• Conduct systems engineering trade studies to identify potential risks and mitigations, evaluate induced environmental hazards between vehicles, and participate in hazard/risk reviews
• Participate in programmatic milestone reviews
• Perform other duties as required

This position has been posted at multiple levels. 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.

• 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.
• 3 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g., M.S. or Ph.D.)
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience in scientific computer programming and software development for analytical and physics-based modeling and simulation
• Strong analytical and computational skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary field
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear), Physics or Chemistry
• 5 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g., M.S. or Ph.D.)
• Experience with NASA programs and projects, for example, Gateway and Artemis
• Experience with external contamination/molecular deposition analysis codes and/or tools including CAD, meshing, and visualization software (e.g., Matlab, Python, Creo, NX, FEMAP, Tecplot, Para View, LS Dyna, etc.)
• Experience with materials out gassing, molecular transport, thin film deposition, optical property degradation, molecular gas dynamics, and/or…