Human Lunar Surface Flight Software Engineer

Job Description

Description

This position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to support NASA’s present and future human spaceflight programs.  You will assist with the design, development, test and evaluation of spacecraft systems and mission planning for NASA’s lunar Human Landing System (HLS) Program. You will be responsible for ensuring spacecraft flight software systems comply with all applicable Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) requirements. Some travel to vendors, prime contractor sites, and/or vehicle processing centers may be required.  Specific tasks include:

• Assist with the development and effective implementation of Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance (SR&QA) requirements, processes and procedures
• Evaluation of spacecraft design and operations for compliance to NASA SR&QA requirements and system certification limits / constraints
• Evaluation of changes to requirements, materials, processes and procedures for potential impacts to flight safety and mission success
• Evaluation of prime contractor processes and products including hazard analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), design verification analysis, reliability and maintainability analysis, limited life item time/cycle tracking reports, hardware qualification and acceptance test reports
• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and trade studies
• Perform integrated hazard analyses of joint operations between HLS, Gateway, Orion and Extravehicular Activity Systems (EVAS) to identify potential hazards, hazard causes and controls, and document residual flight safety risk
• Identify, characterize and provide recommendations regarding mitigation of safety and mission assurance risks to senior management
• Participation in failure analysis and problem resolution

Qualifications

Candidates must be US citizens and able to pass a public trust security clearance

EDUCATION:    BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or other science degree

REQUIRED SKILLS: 

• 10-15 related experience
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills
• High degree of technical excellence, integrity, and self-initiative
• Ability to evaluate technical merits of spacecraft flight software designs and identify alternative solutions to complex technical problems to mitigate mission risk
• Ability to work effectively across multiple organizations / stakeholders and within a teaming environment to get results
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Power Point, Excel)
• Ability to understand flight software programming
• Familiar with the development, assurance, and certification of complex, critical computerized control systems safety for systems containing software or programmable electronics, to include implementation of technical requirements for safety.  This may include NASA systems, or commercial systems (e.g., medical devices, energy, aviation)

DESIRED SKILLS: 

• Experience with spacecraft design, test and verification, maintenance, and operations
• Programming experience or software safety
• Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance (SR&QA) experience is desirable with emphasis on development and utilization of system safety (hazard analysis) and reliability analyses (FMEA/CIL, PRA, RBDA, FTA) to inform and influence design, test and verification activities, and planned flight operations
• Experience performing root cause analysis and development of fault trees to support anomaly / non-conformance investigations
• Experience to the following training and/or education:

•        Distributed software control systems

•        Models and simulations

•        Fault Management

•        Unified Modeling Language (UML) / System Modeling Language (SYSML)

•        Time Triggered Ethernet (TTE)

•        Flight Software Development

Overview

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