Description:
Building on The Aerospace Corporation's reputation as a trusted, impartial advisor with integrity and dedication to mission success, the Civil Systems Group (CSG) combines deep technical expertise with market-leading innovation to help our customers solve complex systems engineering and integration challenges. CSG is organized by core customer-facing lines of business to manage and grow programs within NASA, NOAA, USGS, and the NNSA, while extending our capabilities to other civilian federal government agencies fully integrated within Aerospace rules, regulations, processes, values and behaviors.
This position is for an Entry, Descent & Landing Parachutes Technical Specialist. In this role you will support NASA Johnson Space Center’s Engineering Directorate in monitoring the design, development, testing, and preflight packing of parachutes associated with NASA and commercial human rated and logistics spacecrafts.
This will be an onsite position based at Johnson Space Center in Texas.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Serve as a highly proactive technical specialist, understanding issues and formulating options/recommendations, while working closely for the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division and collaborating with Kennedy Space Center, and across other offices, teams, working groups and panels.
- Support the assessment of flight dynamics model correlation on the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) providers’ parachutes and parachute systems using data from test and analyses.
- Support parachute development including requirements verification, drop test participation and independent post-test analysis, pre-flight packaging verification in plant, and reentry and parachute deployment modeling and post deployment assessment
- If requested, support NASA in the architecture, research, and development of prototype next generation parachute technology.
- If requested, support NASA in initiating the parachute development and support for Gateway and other exploration/deep-space logistics spacecrafts.
- Support the overall development and coordinating reach back into Aerospace subject matter experts for flight dynamic predictive models for parachutes
- Develop periodic status reports and presentations
- Develop special reports/discussions of findings, issues, conclusions, recommendations, and risk assessments
- Coordinate requirements, technical objectives, interfaces, standards, issues and findings with subject matter experts and stakeholders
What You Need to be Successful
Minimum Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in a STEM Field
- 6 or more years of increasingly responsible and related engineering/scientific experience
- Knowledge of human space flight preparation for flight technical processes
- Have test experience including execution of test requirements, verification and validation processes, procedure, planning, preparing for Test Readiness Reviews, logistical coordination pre and at test site, and test execution for flight hardware and ground systems.
- Experience working across diverse teams and different engineering disciplines
- Knowledge of space flight certification processes to ensure performance and safety requirements are met
- Developing project management skills
- Ability to work within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple agencies, organizations, projects and programs
- Ability to identify and communicate concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner