Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer: Mission Integrity

Columbus Technologies and Services; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbus Technologies and Services seeks an experienced Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer to support Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The engineer will analyze and verify contamination requirements across the spacecraft lifecycle and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to mitigate risks.

Responsibilities include contamination sensitivity assessments, budgets, mitigation strategies, and evaluation of control methods for flight hardware and missions. U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience determining contamination sensitivities and evaluating or developing contamination requirements based on instrument, payload, or system performance characteristics.
• Experience evaluating contamination controls across design, manufacturing, integration, test, and inspection activities.
• Experience with molecular and particulate contamination, outgassing, transport/deposition, cleanroom practices, materials, vacuum systems, and hardware cleaning and inspection methods.
• Experience with aerospace contamination control processes for spacecraft, launch systems, or other contamination-sensitive flight hardware.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate contamination sensitivities, requirements, controls, budgets, and mitigation strategies for spacecraft, payloads, and hardware.
• Analyze contamination sources, transport, and deposition and potential impacts on spacecraft, instruments, and docking surfaces.
• Review contamination control plans, analyses, verification approaches, and documentation throughout design, manufacturing, integration, testing, and operations.
• Support development and refinement of contamination-related requirements and verification approaches with assessment of compliance methods.

Skills

Contamination sensitivity analysis

Contamination controls evaluation

Molecular contamination

Outgassing and transport

Cleanroom practices

Aerospace contamination control

Technical communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Columbus Technologies and Services seeks an experienced Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer to support Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The engineer will analyze and verify contamination requirements across the spacecraft lifecycle and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to mitigate risks.

Responsibilities include contamination sensitivity assessments, budgets, mitigation strategies, and evaluation of control methods for flight hardware and missions. U.S.