Engineer/Analyst (MTSD)

Mission Driven Research, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Mission Driven Research, Inc. seeks an Engineer/Analyst to support the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). You will define analytical approaches, perform investigations, and develop tools and reports for flight safety and system safety missions.

You will work on analyses of trajectory, debris, toxic, overpressure, and hazard areas, review documentation, and help validate compliance evidence, contributing to model development and data-driven test plans under AST directives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science plus a minimum of five (5) years of engineering experience in a related industry; or
• Master's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science plus a minimum of three (3) years of engineering experience in a related industry; or
• Ph. D. in engineering, mathematics, or science

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the definition of analytical approach and conducting technical investigations and analyses
• Developing technical processes, reports, and tools in support of flight safety and system safety task orders
• Supporting trajectory, debris, toxic, overpressure, and hazard-area analyses, and helping evaluate risk metrics and consequences
• Reviewing engineering documentation and supporting verification and validation of compliance evidence
• Contributing to model development, data collection and analysis, and test-plan development under AST's research and development efforts
• Preparing technical data, briefings, and deliverables for the AST customer

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science

Master's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science

Ph. D. in engineering, mathematics, or science

Job description

• Mission Driven Research (MDR) primarily operates in the federal government services domain and our primary asset is our employee base. As a result, Mission Driven Research employees are rewarded accordingly with competitive salaries, and a comprehensive benefits package.

MDR is looking for an amazingly talented Engineer/Analyst to join our team supporting the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST)! In this role you will help define the approach to technical investigations and carry out the analyses, tools, and documentation that support AST's flight safety and system safety mission.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Contributing to the definition of analytical approach and conducting technical investigations and analyses
• Developing technical processes, reports, and tools in support of flight safety and system safety task orders
• Supporting trajectory, debris, toxic, overpressure, and hazard-area analyses, and helping evaluate risk metrics and consequences
• Reviewing engineering documentation and supporting verification and validation of compliance evidence
• Contributing to model development, data collection and analysis, and test-plan development under AST's research and development efforts
• Preparing technical data, briefings, and deliverables for the AST customer

What You'll Need:

One of the following combinations:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science, plus a minimum of five (5) years of engineering experience in a related industry; or
• Master's degree in engineering, mathematics, or science, plus a minimum of three (3) years of engineering experience in a related industry; or
• Ph. D. in engineering, mathematics, or science

About the work:

Mission Driven Research (MDR) provides advanced flight safety and system safety support to the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. AST carries a serious public-safety mandate: under U.S. law it is responsible for protecting public health and safety, property, and the national security and foreign-policy interests of the United States during commercial space launch and reentry activities. AST meets that responsibility by licensing and permitting commercial launch and reentry vehicle operations and launch/reentry site operations, issuing experimental permits and safety approvals, and supporting the FAA's Air Traffic Organization on airspace management and amateur rocket activities.

Our team helps AST evaluate license, permit, and safety-approval applications; develop regulations, guidance, and training; build analytical tools; and conduct research on advanced modeling and computational methods. Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis sits at the center of the work - explosive safety, debris and toxic risk, distance-focusing overpressure, hazard-area determination, maximum probable loss, flight safety systems, software safety, and system safety - applied across launch and reentry vehicle operations, range operations, and the public-safety issues tied to launch and reentry site operations. Work is ordered and scoped through individual task orders, so the mix of activity evolves with AST's priorities.

All contractor personnel must satisfy applicable FAA personnel security requirements (per FAA Personnel Security Order 1600.1) and complete required information systems security training.

Mission Driven Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you are interested in applying for employment with Mission Driven Research and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website, please contact us by email ([e-mail]) or by phone by calling [phone]. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.