Senior Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer

Jobtailor; Greenbelt (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced aerospace contamination engineer to provide subject matter expertise in contamination requirements and controls across the spacecraft lifecycle. You will manage budgets, mitigation strategies, and transport analyses for spacecraft, payloads, and hardware.

Role requires strong collaboration across thermal, fluids, propulsion, materials, and systems engineering teams, with a focus on verification approaches and risk-driven design changes. U.S.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Engineering or related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience, or MS with 7+ years.
• Experience determining contamination sensitivities and developing requirements based on instrument or system performance.
• Experience evaluating contamination controls across design, manufacturing, integration, test, and inspection.
• Experience with molecular and particulate contamination, outgassing, transport/deposition, cleanroom practices, vacuum systems.
• Experience with aerospace contamination control for spacecraft, launch systems, or other contamination-sensitive flight hardware.
• U.S. Citizen and able to pass a U.S. Government background investigation.
• Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication.
• Desired: MS/PhD in Engineering or related discipline.
• Desired: NASA contamination standards experience.
• Desired: ASTM E595, E1559, E1216, or E1235 experience.
• Desired: Contamination modeling with MATLAB, Thermal Desktop or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise in spacecraft contamination requirements and controls throughout the lifecycle.
• Manage contamination sensitivity assessments, budgets, mitigation strategies, and transport analysis.
• Evaluate contamination sensitivities, requirements, controls, budgets, and mitigation strategies for spacecraft and hardware.
• Analyze contamination sources, transport, and deposition and assess impacts.
• Review contamination control plans, analyses, verification approaches, and documentation across all phases.
• Support development and refinement of contamination-related requirements and verification approaches.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to assess risks and drive design changes.
• Provide independent technical assessments and recommendations to leadership.
• Participate in technical reviews with spacecraft developers, test organizations, and partners.

Skills

Contamination Sensitivity

Molecular Contamination

Particulate Contamination

Contamination Control

Technical Communication

NASA Standards

Education

B.S. in Engineering

M.S./Ph.D. preferred

Tools

MATLAB

Thermal Desktop

Contamination Analysis Software

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced aerospace contamination engineer to provide subject matter expertise in contamination requirements and controls across the spacecraft lifecycle. You will manage budgets, mitigation strategies, and transport analyses for spacecraft, payloads, and hardware.

Role requires strong collaboration across thermal, fluids, propulsion, materials, and systems engineering teams, with a focus on verification approaches and risk-driven design changes. U.S.