POSITION OVERVIEW:
Alcyon Technical Services JV, LLC (ATS) is the prime contractor for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Systems Engineering Advanced Services (SEAS) contract. ATS has a need for a Mission Systems Engineer with at least 15 years of space mission systems engineering experience to support the Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) Program as a mission systems engineer.
The Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) Program at the NASA Godard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) environmental satellite program. Its mission is to provide space weather observations to enable space weather forecasting by NOAA. SWFO will make direct, in-situ, measurements of the solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field “up-stream” of the Earth. In addition, SWFO will observe the Sun’s corona to detect expulsions of plasma and magnetic field, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), which may be directed towards the Earth. The data produced by SWFO will help NOAA provide watches and warnings for space weather events that can disrupt the electrical power grid and communications systems as well as navigation and timing systems like the Global Positioning System (GPS).
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
The candidate systems engineer shall perform the following duties but is not limited to:
- Manage the mission level requirements verification and tracking process according to the NASA standards.
- Conduct risk identification, assessment, and mitigation determined by 7120.5D requirements.
- Support SWFO-L1 Project document and configuration management
- Support mission design and architecture development.
- Support requirements verification and validation, including Interface Control Document (ICD) development and update, in coordination with instrument suite and spacecraft developers.
- Provide instrument suite review support that includes preparing review criteria guidelines, review of draft presentation packages and tracking of Requests for Action (RFA’s) through closure.
- Represent the SWFO-L1 Project Office in Technical Interface Meetings (TIMs), for example, including but not limited to Electromagnetic Compatibility Working Groups (EMCWGs), Contamination and Control Working Groups (CCWGs).
- Assess mission level requirements imposed on the instrument suite.
- Support spacecraft level reviews (milestone and peer).
- Perform technical trade studies when required and evaluate technical options involving instrument suite accommodations on the spacecraft.
- Provide systems engineering support for the Concept of Operations management & oversight.
- Assist in tracking and verifying overall implementation phase development requirements.
- Support spacecraft level instrument functional and aliveness testing
- Support pre-launch and on-orbit flight and mission operations including on-orbit verification.
- Provide ground system technical, equipment evaluation, and logistics support.
Required Skills
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, mathematics, or computer science or physics from an accredited institution is required.
- Minimum of 15 years of demonstrated experience as a Systems Engineer for space mission systems.
- Strong background in requirements management, interface requirements, requirements validation, verification, top-level verification planning.
- Experience in end to end mission requirements traceability and validation.
- Experience with NASA policies and procedures regarding program/project management lifecycles and systems engineering.
- Experience with database tools, requirements management and system architecture tools.
- Experience with the NASA system requirements tools such as DOORS
- Knowledge of NASA Goddard’s Gold Rules
- Experience with testing methodologies and test planning activities
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) software tools.
- Currently hold or ability to obtain a NASA Goddard badge (NACI background investigation) is required.
Required Experience