Spacecraft Parachute Lead Engineer

Spacecraft Parachute Lead Engineer

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center
Status: Full Time, Onsite 

Clearance: Background check

U.S. Citizenship required

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you! As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have an exciting opportunity for a Spacecraft Parachute Lead Engineer to join the team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

*This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and 5 years of related experience.
• Familiarity with the details of current spacecraft capsule parachute systems
• Organizing, planning, and/or managing technical activities for the purpose of accomplishing defined objectives within schedule and budget constraints
• Knowledge of adjacent disciplines of aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and loads & dynamics
• Ability to effectively utilize oral and written communication to present technical data, concepts, and recommendations to personnel at all technical and managerial levels
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and various contractor employees.

DESIRED QUALIFICATION / SKILLS

• MS or Ph.D. in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering
• Extensive knowledge of principles, and practices involved in the definition, design, development, integration, test, manufacturing, and operations of parachute recovery systems
• Extensive experience with ground testing of textile components and assemblies
• Expertise in interpretation of ground test and flight data
• Experience with wind tunnel testing
• Experience with extracting aerodynamic data from flight testing

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a parachute lead for a spacecraft parachute system, providing oversight of the design, development, test, integration, verification, and validation for Commercial Crew Program (CCP)
• Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of the spacecraft parachute system design trades, tests, operational mission constraints and risks
• Organize and lead inter-disciplinary independent verification and validation (IV&V) activities to ensure that parachute behavior is adequately characterized to support impacted requirements using modeling and flight-testing techniques
• Support requirements verification, IFA investigations, design change evaluations
• Interface with key stakeholders including but not limited to the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) Office, the CCP
• Integrated Aero science and Flight Mechanics System Manager, NASA JSC Safety and Mission Assurance group, and NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC)
• Maintain a repository of key discussion points and facilitate weekly internal meetings with NASA stakeholders and biweekly discussion with spacecraft stakeholders

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