Structures and Mechanisms Engineer, HLS

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 Structures and Mechanisms Engineer, HLS to join our JETS II contract team at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

• Perform risk based structural insight reviews of commercial provider deliverables, including design data books, stress analysis reports, verification plans, hazard reports, and test results.
• Conduct requirements traceability mapping between HLS structural requirements and provider Verification Events (VEs), identifying verification gaps, inconsistencies, or risks.
• Review provider compliance with HLS adjudicated design and construction standards, ensuring correct interpretation and application across provider hardware.
• Review qualification and acceptance test plans, test reports, and structural performance verification datasets for human rated lunar lander structural hardware.
• Engage with commercial providers through Structures & Mechanisms Insight Forums, including sessions related to NASA owned GFP.
• Support the HLS Crew Structures Lead through contribution to Blue Origin and SpaceX milestone readiness evaluations and additional insight duties as assigned.
• GFP Structural Readiness - Responsible Engineer (RE) Role
• Serve as the Responsible Engineer (RE) for NASA owned GFP structural readiness within HLS Crew Structures, leading day to day tracking, documentation, and communication of GFP structural status and verification progress.
• Maintain authoritative ownership of the Crew Structures GFP Confluence pages, ensuring clear documentation of structural analyses, load cases, configuration changes, verification evidence, structural risks, and readiness posture for all GFP items.
• Review NASA GFP project structural analyses, interface requirements, qualification and acceptance results, materials data, and integration documentation to evaluate structural sufficiency for lander integration.
• Coordinate across NASA GFP provisioning teams, HLS SE&I, Crew Co, SVS, provider insight teams, and integration stakeholders to ensure GFP structural verification evidence is properly interpreted, communicated, and dispositioned.
• Identify structural risks or verification gaps affecting GFP readiness and elevate these to the HLS Crew Structures Lead for action, formal risk management, or follow up within insight workflows.
• Provide monthly GFP project structural readiness status updates to the HLS Crew Structures Lead, supporting Crew Co's monthly reporting cycle with updates on accomplishments, risks, concerns, upcoming deliverables, and verification progress.
• Risk Reduction Structural Analysis
• Perform independent structural analyses using CAD/FEA tools such as Creo, FEMAP, NX, and the NASTRAN solver (primary code) to assess provider design maturity, load path behavior, and structural margins.
• Build, refine, and execute finite element models to validate provider assumptions, identify structural sensitivities, and disclose risk areas prior to program milestones.
• Conduct targeted NASA structural evaluations to independently characterize structural risk, support risk reduction activities, and strengthen insight understanding of…