Flight Safety Engineer/Analyst for Space Transportation

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, 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.