Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer

Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer

Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899

Remote/Telework: No – Full-time onsite position at Kennedy Space Center

Level: Senior Engineer / Subject Matter Expert

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder) and successfully complete the required U.S. government background investigation.

Work Schedule: Full-Time

Aegis Aerospace is seeking an experienced Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer to support advanced spaceflight programs under the LENS contract at Kennedy Space Center. The engineer will provide subject matter expertise in the analysis, assessment, and verification of spacecraft contamination requirements and controls throughout the spacecraft lifecycle. The role includes contamination sensitivity assessments, contamination budgets and mitigation strategies, molecular and particulate transport analysis, and evaluation of contamination controls for flight hardware, payloads, instruments, docking surfaces, and mission operations.

This position may be filled at the Senior Engineer or Subject Matter Expert level, depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications. Compensation will be commensurate with experience and the assigned position level.

The candidate will:

• Evaluate contamination sensitivities, requirements, controls, budgets, and mitigation strategies for spacecraft, payloads, instruments, and associated hardware.
• Analyze molecular and particulate contamination sources, transport, and deposition, including potential effects on spacecraft systems, payloads, instruments, and docking surfaces.
• Review and assess contamination control plans, analyses, verification approaches, and technical documentation throughout design, manufacturing, integration, testing, transportation, storage, and operations.
• Support the development, review, and refinement of contamination-related requirements and verification approaches, including assessment of proposed compliance methods and verification evidence.
• Evaluate contamination risks associated with materials, hardware processing, cleaning, inspection, storage, transportation, vacuum systems, and cleanroom environments.
• Participate in qualification, acceptance, and other testing activities and evaluate test results and demonstrated hardware performance.
• Investigate contamination issues and anomalies, perform or support root-cause analyses, and evaluate proposed corrective actions.
• Apply flight and test experience, lessons learned, and engineering analysis to assess contamination risks, hardware acceptance criteria, and proposed design or process changes.
• Collaborate with thermal, fluids, propulsion, materials, systems engineering, mission design, and other disciplines to evaluate contamination interactions and integrated spacecraft performance.
• Provide independent technical assessments, identify risks and uncertainties, and develop recommendations for engineering and program leadership.
• Participate in technical reviews and engineering activities with spacecraft developers, test organizations, and other technical partners.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring in spacecraft contamination control methods, analyses, standards, and practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• BS degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution plus ten (10) or more years of relevant experience; or an MS degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline plus seven (7) or more years of relevant experience.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in spacecraft contamination control or a closely related aerospace discipline, preferably involving flight hardware.
• Experience determining…