Human Space Flight System Safety Engineer

Job Description

Description

An exciting and challenging opportunity to support NASA’s present and future human spaceflight programs at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas under the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract.  This is an exciting time to be making history with the NASA Safety & Mission Assurance (S&MA) Engineering team assuring continuous human presence on the International Space Station and returning humans to the Moon and on to Mars, safely. The candidate will work in a collaborative environment comprised of NASA engineers, mission operations specialists, and commercial spaceflight experts in the Gateway Program; providing system safety expertise to the Gateway Integrated Safety Review Panel for all areas of technical and process safety.

Specific tasks may include:

• Evaluation of products including hazard analysis, design verification analysis, reliability and maintainability analysis, hardware qualification and acceptance test reports
• Evaluation of changes to requirements, materials, processes and procedures for potential impacts to flight safety and mission success
• Evaluation of spacecraft design and operations for compliance to NASA S&MA requirements and system certification limits / constraints
• Assist with the development and effective implementation of S&MA requirements, processes and procedures
• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and trade studies
• Identify, characterize and provide recommendations regarding mitigation of safety and mission assurance risks to senior management
• Participation in failure analysis and problem resolution

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Required Experience/Skills: 

• 10+ years related experience
• Ability to evaluate technical merits of human space flight (HSF) spacecraft designs and identify safe alternative solutions to complex technical problems to mitigate mission risk
• Experience with HSF spacecraft design, test and verification, maintenance, and operations
• S&MA experience with emphasis on HSF system safety (hazard analysis) and reliability analyses to inform and influence design, test and verification activities, and planned flight operations
• Experience performing root cause analysis and development of fault trees
• Familiarity with the Gateway vehicle systems
• Ability to work effectively across multiple organizations / stakeholders and within a teaming environment to get results
• High degree of technical excellence, integrity, and self-initiative
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Power Point, Excel)

Required Education:  

• BS degree in Engineering or related Science/Technical field (Electrical, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering preferred) 

Must be a U.S. citizen. Must be able to obtain and retain Public Trust security clearance.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

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