SLS Orion Trajectory Analyst; ES3

SLS Orion Trajectory Analyst (ES3)

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The Mission Analysis and Trajectory Design Engineer helps support the development, integration, and testing of flight mechanics simulations for NASA's SLS/ARTEMIS program, NASA's HLS program, and other smaller NASA projects. This position will require a well-rounded background of flight dynamics modeling skills, experience with computer programming, and the desire to perform high fidelity analyses to help optimize and integrate inputs for the flight dynamics of the Artemis mission.

Description

The Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for NASA projects ranging from NASA's Space Launch System(SLS) to NASA's Human Lander System. We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support NASA's Flight Dynamics Team in the Guidance, Navigation, & Mission Analysis branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

ASED offers a partnership in which you can grow personally and professionally within a framework of strong leadership, competitive compensation, and rewarding career paths. Come join our team!

Job Functions:

• Analysis of launch vehicle and spacecraft, dynamics, equations of motion, and trajectories to assess performance of spacecraft trajectories, mission analysis, and related studies
• Modeling ascent and in-space environments, errors, disturbances, GN&C algorithms, sensors, actuators, and mechanisms
• Simulate and analyze nominal, contingency, and failure scenarios during ascent and in-space flight
• Develop algorithms and tools to analyze 3 DOF trajectories using Monte Carlo techniques
• Perform studies and insight analysis for NASA's HLS program
• Execute/modify existing software/scripts in C, Python, C++

Qualifications

A degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or related field from an ABET accredited institution is required. Typical experience requirements are the equivalent a master's with at least 3 years of experience, or bachelor's with at least 5 years of experience. Must be a US Citizen and have a STAR .

To be successful in this position, the applicant must be detail oriented, work independently and collaboratively, possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, and will typically possess some of the following skills:

• Dynamically model 3 and 6 DOF single body systems
• Matlab, Fortran, C++ programming experience
• Familiarity with Linux, Bash, and the use of computational clusters/servers
• Support the design, integration, and analysis of GN&C products.
• Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DOF Monte Carlo simulations.
• Familiarity with convex optimization

The candidate is REQUIRED to have the following skills and experiences:

• Trajectory Design and/or mission analysis experience
• Python programming experience
• Copernicus experience
• Software & simulation…