Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer - On-site at GSFC

Relative Dynamics; Greenbelt (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Relative Dynamics seeks a Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer to work on-site at NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, MD. This is a full-time, on-site role with no remote work eligibility.

You will provide expert analysis and verification of contamination requirements across the spacecraft lifecycle, lead contamination control activities, and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to assess risks and propose design or process changes.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Engineering or related discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience, or M.S. degree and 7+ years of relevant experience.
• 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.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and successfully complete a U.S. Government background investigation.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise in the analysis, assessment, and verification of spacecraft contamination requirements and controls throughout the spacecraft lifecycle.
• Manage contamination sensitivity assessments, contamination budgets and mitigation strategies, molecular and particulate transport analysis, and evaluation of contamination controls for flight hardware, payloads, and mission operations.
• Evaluate contamination risks associated with materials, hardware processing, cleaning, inspection, storage, transportation, and cleanroom environments.
• Collaborate with thermal, fluids, propulsion, materials, systems engineering, mission design, and other disciplines to evaluate contamination interactions and integrated spacecraft performance.
• Participate in qualification, acceptance, and other testing activities and evaluate test results and demonstrated performance.
• Investigate contamination issues and anomalies, perform or support root-cause analysis, and evaluate proposed corrective actions.

Skills

Contamination control

Technical communication

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

B.S. in Engineering or related discipline

M.S. in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

MATLAB

Thermal Desktop

Job description

Relative Dynamics seeks a Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer to work on-site at NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, MD. This is a full-time, on-site role with no remote work eligibility.

You will provide expert analysis and verification of contamination requirements across the spacecraft lifecycle, lead contamination control activities, and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to assess risks and propose design or process changes.