Space Environments Engineer — Systems & Data Analysis

jbssolutions; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JBS Solutions, Inc. in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Space Environments Engineer to join the MSFC Natural Environments Branch, providing systems engineering and data analysis support for space environments programs.

The role involves coordinating with program teams, delivering technical briefings, evaluating environment requirements, reviewing designs, and reporting milestones. Candidates should have a physics/space science degree with relevant space environments and Python/C++ experience.

Qualifications

• 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 space environments applicable to human spaceflight missions.
• 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.
• Experience negotiating and collaborating to resolve complex technical problems and breaking down complex problems or issues into manageable pieces.
• Self‑motivated, proactive, and effective team player with customer relation skills, familiar with working in a dynamic work environment.
• Experience with analyzing space radiation datasets (AE9, AP9)
• Knowledge of the Artemis Program
• Experience with the Gateway, Human Lander System, International Space Station, Space Launch System, Orion, or other similar space vehicles and programs is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and interface with programs and project teams and personnel in reviews, meetings, TIMs, 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.
• Conduct space radiation assessments, as needed.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Systems engineering

Data analysis

Technical communication

Education

BS + 5 years experience

MS + 3 years experience

PhD + relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

JBS Solutions, Inc. in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Space Environments Engineer to join the MSFC Natural Environments Branch, providing systems engineering and data analysis support for space environments programs.

The role involves coordinating with program teams, delivering technical briefings, evaluating environment requirements, reviewing designs, and reporting milestones. Candidates should have a physics/space science degree with relevant space environments and Python/C++ experience.