Lead Aerospace Engineer, AST, Flight Systems Engineer (Direct Hire)

$152,105 - $191,900/Yr

National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Moffett Field, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Moffett Field, CA

Space Research and Technology

About the position

As a Systems Engineer in the Engineering Directorate at Ames Research Center (ARC), you will serve primarily in leadership roles within the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Tech Area, leading design, development, and deployment of spaceflight technologies, instruments, technology demonstrations, facility developments, and technical project management with the intention of becoming the next generation of lead systems engineers at ARC.

Responsibilities

• Manage and integrate stakeholder goals and objectives of hardware, flight systems, mission elements, or a mission within a system or product's life cycle.
• Define, develop, or evaluate with subsystem or system level leads for system requirements, operational requirements, mission requirements, or system or operational objectives to meet mission requirements.
• Perform requirements management, incorporate system requirements and external stakeholder requirements, through the various phases of the product's life cycle, and incorporate requirements' updates and ensure that impacts are understood.
• Identify and establish guidelines, methodologies, procedures, and processes necessary to integrate components, assemblies, subsystems, and systems into the overall flight system to support project level system engineering processes.
• Analyze, test, evaluate, and verify and validate hardware, software, and system capabilities during integration and test and operational test campaigns.
• Participate in identifying, assessing, mitigating, prioritizing, or managing technical risks in system design, development, test, and operations as part of a team.
• Provide technical leadership or motivation for a diverse team, in backgrounds or experience levels, within a system or product's life cycle.
• Work with systems engineering within a system or product's life cycle of spaceflight systems (concept development, spacecraft development, integration and test, mission operations, and close-out).
• Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• This position may require a one-year trial period.
• Financial Disclosure, Drug Testing, Bargaining Unit, and/or the Travel Requirements for this position may differ and be required based on the duty location/Directorate/Division/Branch requirements.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation or higher-level clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading or providing technical guidance to a team of engineers related to system engineering disciplines.
• Experience presenting the combined output of a technical or system engineering team to project stakeholders.
• Experience communicating within the project management structure and with external stakeholders.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee.
• Access to a range of benefits designed to make your federal career rewarding.