Senior Systems Engineer

Cepeda; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cepeda Systems and Software Analysis in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support NASA’s HLS program at Marshall Space Flight Center. You will provide engineering integration across Artemis mission elements, SLS, Orion, and xEVA, coordinating requirements and interfaces with Level 2/3 teams and Artemis programs.

Required are a Bachelor’s in engineering or science, 8+ years of related experience (or 5 years with a Master’s), and US citizenship with the ability to obtain a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or Science field.
• Minimum 8 years related experience or a master’s degree with 5 years of experience.
• US Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate operations and hardware capability design definition, requirements development and verification planning.
• Interact with Level 2 and 3 teams to define, negotiate and document requirements and integration aspects.
• Collaborate with Artemis Programs for operations definition, data coordination and issue resolution; establish Ground Rules and Assumptions for integration.
• Coordinate analyses with loads and environmental teams for visiting vehicle interactions.
• Identify design options and lead functional architecting or analyses as needed.
• Assess proposed interactions for impacts from external design and updates.
• Prepare Interface Requirement Documents (IRD) and Interface Control Documents (ICD) for integration.
• Act as Change Package Engineer to review interface and related docs and participate in working groups.
• Facilitate cross-program data, hardware, and software exchanges.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements development

Interface control documents

Change management

Cross-program coordination

NASA Artemis familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science

Job description

Cepeda Systems and Software Analysis, a rapidly growing small business in Huntsville, AL, is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer supporting NASA’s HLS (Human Landing System) Program at Marshall Space Flight Center. This position will provide engineering integration services across Artemis mission elements and programs such as SLS, Orion, and xEVA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support coordination of operations and hardware capability design definition, requirements development, and verification planning for proposed systems
• Interaction with Level 2 and 3 teams to ensure all requirements and integration aspects are appropriately defined, negotiated and documented
• Interact with Artemis Programs for creation and documentation of operations definition, analysis cycle data coordination, function/requirement specific assessment and issue resolution as well as Ground Rules and Assumptions in support of integration
• Interacting with Analysis teams - loads, environments etc. to coordinate the mission unique analyses, particularly associated with visiting vehicle interaction.
• Identify design options within the solution space and lead or support functional architecting and/or functional analyses
• Perform thorough technical assessments of proposed internal and external interactions, requirements, planning and execution to understand the impacts imposed by external design and product development/updates
• As necessary, generate and coordinate Interface Requirement Document(s) (IRD) as well as Interface Control Document(s) (ICD) content to ensure the necessary and complete integration of requirements
• Act as Change Package Engineer as needed to foster review of interface or other related documentation through review (to potentially include presenting at various working groups, forums, and boards)
• Facilitate cross program exchanges as needed (data, hardware, software)

Clearance:

US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Science field

Experience Required:

Minimum of 8 years related experience or a master’s degree with 5 years of experience.

Experience Preferred:

• An understanding of vehicle systems definition, functional requirement development, and/or design integration is required.
• Must be able to breakdown complex problems or issues into manageable pieces to facilitate resolution of technical concerns.
• Experience reading and working with engineering drawings, interface control documents, configuration documents, or other technical documentation is expected.
• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, customer relation skills, and presentation skills are required.
• Experience negotiating and coordinating top-level interface/integration agreements

Knowledge/Skills Preferred:

Understanding of the NASA systems engineering policies and procedures, and familiarity with the Artemis Program