Spaceflight Structural Hardware Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

Astrion; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NASA Johnson Space Center is seeking a Spaceflight Structural Hardware Systems Engineer for an onsite, full-time role. The position requires a background check and U.S. citizenship, with experience across NASA hardware life cycles and system engineering processes.

The role emphasizes requirements management, verification activities, and close collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure safe, reliable spaceflight hardware performance and readiness reviews.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 5–10 years of related experience.
• Experience providing mechanical design support in the NASA JSC Flight Hardware process.
• Experience with NASA JSC Flight Hardware Life Cycle, Certification, and Engineering processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication across multiple disciplines.
• Familiarity with NASA, DoD, or Aerospace systems engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements planning, development, and verification within NASA JSC Flight Hardware processes.
• Prepare and present materials for SRR, PDR, and CDR.
• Identify risks and develop risk statements with mitigation plans.
• Perform architecture trade studies and system analyses affecting design and performance.
• Use and manage requirements with tools such as DOORS, Cradle, or Jama.
• Create and manage project interfaces and flow-down from NASA programs to contractors.
• Collaborate in a team environment and report progress to the team lead.
• Maintain professional relationships with NASA customers and contractors.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Skills

Mechanical design support

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Verification and validation

Risk analysis

Design trades

Written and verbal communication

SharePoint & MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Cradle

Jama

SharePoint

Job description

Overview Spaceflight Structural Hardware Systems Engineer LOCATION : NASA Johnson Space Center JOB STATUS : Full Time, Onsite CLEARANCE: Background check & U.S. Citizenship required Please carefully review the position requirements before submitting a potential candidate for consideration. Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you! We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have an exciting opportunity for a Spaceflight Structural Hardware Systems Engineer to join the team! We are actively searching for qualified candidates for this potential opening; however, we do not have assurance at this time when the position will be finalized and opened. Because we have strong reason to believe the position will be approved soon, we are proceeding with identifying qualified candidates and conducting interviews.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and normally possess 5- 10 years of related experience. License and certification may be required.
• Have provided mechanical design support in the NASA JSC Flight Hardware process
• Have provided mechanical system engineering support on multiple flight hardware projects with NASA JSC Flight Hardware Life Cycle, Certification, and Engineering processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication across multiple disciplines
• Knowledge and work experience in a Systems Engineering role in a NASA, DoD, or Aerospace environment
• Senior level experience with requirements management, verification and validation definition and execution, design trades, risk analysis, and system analysis of space hardware
• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings
• Familiarity with SharePoint and Microsoft Office products This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS

• Senior level working knowledge of NASA, JSC, and ISS standard practices and requirements including safety, fault tolerance, and unique disciplines
• Familiarity with NASA/JSC documentation databases and share point sites as well as typical systems engineering software products
• Experience in technical and team leadership roles

RESPONSIBILITES

• Lead the planning, development, review, and maintenance of requirements and verification plans in the NASA JSC Flight Hardware Life Cycle, Certification, and Engineering processes
• Prepare and present presentation materials for the system life cycle phasing, including SRR (System Readiness Review), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR)
• Work with team members to identify risks, develop risk statements, and to help them plan risk responses
• Perform and review system level architecture trade studies and analyses that will influence the overall system design and performance
• Utilize requirements management software and systems engineering tool such as DOORS, Cradle or Jama
• Create and manage requirements for various projects - including flow down from NASA Program to contractor Project through verification closeout as well as interface definition between subsystems
• Work in a team environment and report to the team lead to provide status on progress and raise issues
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors
• Perform other tasks assigned #CJ