Propulsion Systems Engineer #ADV0009DR

Jacobs Engineering Group - Huntsville, AL

Full-time - Entry Level

Huntsville, AL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Propulsion Systems Engineer will be part of a highly integrated team focused on technical and integration activities to support the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) main propulsion systems and launch vehicles. This role involves collaboration in various engineering tasks, assessments, and documentation to ensure compliance with human rating certification requirements and to facilitate successful launch operations.

Responsibilities

• Attend technical interchange, project planning, design review and other appropriate meetings to maintain a current knowledge base of design, requirements, issues, action items, and resolution activities.
• Perform system assessments, identify issues, pursue resolutions, document and present to engineering review board with rationale and recommendations.
• Collect data and perform assessments on the NASA partner launch vehicles and system to continually assess compliance against human rating certification requirements as defined by the CCP program office.
• Provide integration insight, evaluations, document reviews, and milestone reviews including Review Item Discrepancy (RID) disposition at the Program and Element level.
• Evaluate vehicle changes for impacts to propulsion elements and vehicle integration.
• Verification and validation planning and execution for propulsion components, subsystems and integrated vehicle.
• Assess propulsion system risks and issues associated with commercial crew launch vehicles; develop requirements and implement risk management processes.
• Perform analysis and provide systems engineering skills to support Commercial Crew Main Propulsion Systems engineering and integration.
• Develop models and analysis tools, provide analytical documentation such as trade studies, hazards assessments, fault tolerance designs, certifications for flight, launch vehicle data reviews.
• Support NASA mission management team during testing and launch operations.

Requirements

• A degree in engineering or a related discipline is required; a degree from an ABET accredited university is preferred.
• Typically, the educational requirement is a BS with 2 years of experience.
• Experience with main propulsion system design, analysis, engine integration or development/verification testing.
• Integration experience at the vehicle or stage level to include technical and systems engineering activities.
• Capability to plan and perform systems engineering and analysis tasks independently and as a team.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products such as Power-Point, Excel, and Word.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Individual must be highly motivated, flexible and willing to shift focus areas to meet volatile customer requirements.