Space Environments Engineer

Aerodyne Industries LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An advanced aerospace company located in Huntsville, Alabama seeks a candidate to assist the Space Environments Team with technical and programmatic support for NASA projects. The role requires a degree in physics or a related field, strong communication skills, and familiarity with aerospace hardware design. Responsibilities include coordinating with project teams, providing expertise on space environments, and delivering briefings. Moving to the Huntsville area is necessary for this position, which offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in human spaceflight.

Qualifications

• Degree in physics, space science, or related discipline required.
• 5-9 years experience or equivalent in related field expected.
• Familiarity with aerospace flight and ground hardware design.
• Familiarity with the systems engineering life cycle end-to-end development ranging from requirements development to flight readiness.
• Knowledge of development and documentation of requirements and procedures for aerospace hardware design, development, and testing.
• Knowledge of natural space environments applicable to human spaceflight missions.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with programs and project teams.
• Provide space environments expertise to projects.
• Develop and deliver technical programmatic briefings.
• Review delivered products to verify environment definition and implementation.
• Prepare technical programmatic briefings and deliverables.
• Coordinate with space environments SMEs for technical support and reviews.
• Report to program leadership on milestones and accomplishments.
• Evaluate risk implications and communicate risk at the program level.
• Assist in the book management of the Design Specification for Natural Environments.

Skills

Familiarity with systems engineering life cycle

Knowledge of natural space environments

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite

Stakeholder coordination

MS Office proficiency

Education

Degree in physics, space science, or related discipline

5-9 years relevant experience

PhD (desired)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Aerodyne Industries is a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and information technology services firm headquartered on Florida’s exciting Space Coast. With locations throughout the US, we take pride in delivering small business agility with large corporation capabilities. Our list of clients count on us to prepare NASA’s Missions to the Moon and Mars and to defend our nation supporting the Missile Defense Agency and Department of Defense. Join the adventure of a lifetime by becoming a teammate with Aerodyne Industries and work on projects that will define our future.

Description:

This position will assist the Space Environments Team at the MSFC Natural Environments Branch through providing support to the space environments program leads. Specific support to be provided includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Coordinate and interface with programs and project teams and personnel in reviews, meetings, technical interchange meetings, technical performance meetings, teleconferences, working groups, and trade studies.
• Provide space environments expertise to programs and projects, including consultation on space environments specifications and updates.
• Perform oversight/insight activities to ensure subsystem and spacecraft designs are implementing space environment program requirements.
• Review delivered products to verify they sufficiently document the environment definition and implementation in design, testing, and analysis.
• Provide information and deliverables for key systems engineering program/project milestones.
• Develop, prepare, and deliver technical programmatic briefings, as requested.
• Coordinate with space environments subject matter experts for technical support, analysis, product reviews, and environments development.
• Report to program leadership on technical milestones and accomplishments on a regularly approved basis.
• Evaluate risk implications and communicate risk at the program level.
• Assist in the book management of the Design Specification for Natural Environments.

Qualifications:

• A degree in physics, space science, or a related science or engineering discipline is required.
• Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a BS with 5-9 years of experience, a master’s with 3-7 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D.
• Experience and interest in both space environments and systems engineering is highly desired.

The candidate is required to have:

• Familiarity with the systems engineering life cycle end-to-end development ranging from requirements development, functional design, hardware integration, requirement verification, and flight readiness that ultimately lead to flight hardware certification.
• Knowledge of the development and documentation of requirements, processes, and/or procedures associated with aerospace flight and ground hardware design, development, production, test, verification, evaluation, integration, and/or operations.
• Knowledge of natural space environments applicable to human spaceflight missions, such as ionizing radiation, space plasma, lunar surface properties, etc.
• Experience participating in project lifecycle reviews
• Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams & Outlook) are required.
• Excellent written and oral technical communication skills, with the ability to clearly define and describe a technical subject to peers across various engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering project briefings.

  Desired qualifications and experience (presence of one or more of these qualifications will be used as a selection factor):

  • Knowledge of NASA’s Human Landing System, its Elements, Interfaces, and Mission Configurations.
  • Knowledge of the Artemis Program.
  • Experience with the Gateway, Human Landing System, International Space Station, Space Launch System, Orion, or other similar space vehicles and programs is highly desired.

  WORK ENVIRONMENT

  Work will be performed on-site at MSFC. As such, moving to the Huntsville, Alabama area would be required.

  Office environment. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA.