Space Environments Engineer

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Space Environments Engineer - (ADV
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Space Environments Engineer (ADV
000CK
3) – Space Environments Team, MSFC Natural Environments Branch. This role provides space environments program support to leads, including coordination with programs and projects, review of environment definitions, and preparation of technical programmatic briefings.

• Coordinate and interface with programs, project teams, and personnel in reviews, meetings, technical interchange meetings, technical performance meetings, teleconferences, working groups, and trade studies.
• Provide space environments expertise to programs and projects, including consultation on space environments specifications and updates.
• Perform oversight/insight activities to ensure subsystem and spacecraft designs implement space environment program requirements.
• Review delivered products to verify they document the environment definition and implementation in design, testing, and analysis.
• Provide information and deliverables for key systems engineering program/project milestones.
• Develop, prepare, and deliver technical programmatic briefings as requested.
• Coordinate with space environments subject matter experts for technical support, analysis, product reviews, and environments development.
• Report to program leadership on technical milestones and accomplishments on a regularly approved basis.
• Evaluate risk implications and communicate risk at the program level.
• Assist in the book management of the Design Specification for Natural Environments.

A degree in physics, space science, or a related science or engineering discipline is required. Typically, the educational equivalent is a BS with 5-9 years of experience, a master’s with 3-7 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. Experience and interest in both space environments and systems engineering is highly desired.

• Familiarity with the systems engineering life cycle end-to-end development ranging from requirements development, functional design, hardware integration, requirement verification, and flight readiness leading to flight hardware certification.
• Knowledge of development and documentation of requirements, processes, and/or procedures associated with aerospace flight and ground hardware design, development, production, test, verification, evaluation, integration, and/or operations.
• Knowledge of natural space environments applicable to human spaceflight missions (e.g., ionizing radiation, space plasma, lunar surface properties).
• Experience participating in project lifecycle reviews.
• Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams & Outlook).
• Excellent written and oral technical communication skills to clearly describe technical subjects across engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering project briefings.
• Experience negotiating and collaborating to resolve complex technical problems and breaking down issues into manageable pieces.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and effective team player with customer relation skills, familiar with working in a dynamic environment.

• Knowledge of NASA’s Human Landing System, its Elements, Interfaces, and Mission Configurations.
• Knowledge of the Artemis Program.
• Experience with the Gateway, Human Landing System, International Space Station, Space Launch System, Orion, or other similar space vehicles and programs is highly desired.

Office environment. Requires clear, concise, accurate, and timely communication, both verbally and in writing. Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client. Travel in the domestic USA is possible (5%). Requires ability to work at a computer for long periods (100%).

Office environment with potential flexibility depending on customer requirements.

Requires sitting for extended periods in meetings and at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks. Some travel between floors/buildings may be required. See job details for specifics.

Requires ability to operate a personal computer, telephone, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).

Normal workday 7:30-4:30, Monday through Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (up to 10%) to meet schedule milestones and support technical demands. Regular attendance is expected. The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and exercise good judgment is essential.

Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

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