Spacecraft Parachute Lead Engineer with Security Clearance
Astrion Houston
Overview 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.
- This position has been posted at multiple levels.
- 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.
- MS or Ph.D.
- 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 #CJ #LI-AD1
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