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Aerospace Simulation Developer

Jacobs
Jacobs Salary
Huntsville, AL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2025

Our Space Exploration Group (ASED) has been a primary contractor for NASA since 1989 is comprised of 9 companies and is located at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (ranked #1 in Best Places to Live by U.S. News).

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Your growth matters to us—that’s why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, mentoring, and company sponsored networking events, you can take control of your own career path on your own terms with a company that believes in you.

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At ASED, people are at the heart of our business. We reflect a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. We expect our people, clients, and partners to treat one another with dignity and respect. This means promoting inclusion, celebrating diversity, and appreciating the differences we all bring to our workplace.

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Our comprehensive benefits package includes wellness programs, 11 paid holidays, parental leave, paid time off, employee perks and much more.  With these benefits, plus the option for flexible schedules and possible remote a few days a week (depending on customer requirements) we’ll support you as you pursue a balanced, fulfilling life—at work and at home.

Responsibilities :

The Sr Aerospace Systems Analyst helps support the development, integration, and testing of 6 DOF trajectory simulation software for NASA’s SLS / ARTEMIS program.  This position will require a well-rounded background of flight dynamics modelling skills, experience with computer programming, and the desire to perform high fidelity analyses to help optimize and integrate inputs for the flight dynamics of the Artemis mission.

Description :

The Space Exploration Group (ASED) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for NASA projects ranging from NASA’s Space Launch System(SLS) to NASA’s Human Lander System. We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support NASA’s Flight Dynamics Team in the Guidance, Navigation, & Mission Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

Job Functions :

  • Analysis of launch vehicle and spacecraft, dynamics, equations of motion, and trajectories to assess performance of spacecraft ascent trajectories, mission analysis, and related studies
  • Modeling ascent and in-space environments, errors, disturbances, GN&C algorithms, sensors, actuators, and mechanisms
  • Simulate and analyze nominal, contingency, and failure scenarios during ascent and in-space flight
  • Develop algorithms and tools to analyze 6 DOF trajectories using Monte Carlo techniques
  • Execute / modify existing software / scripts in C, Python, C
  • Help develop and improve NASA’s MAVERIC simulation

Day to day activities include :

  • Dynamic modeling of 6 DOF single body systems.
  • Creating, editing and debugging software written in C, Python, Matlab, Fortran, and C .
  • Optimization and improvement of analysis tools and GN&C models.
  • Working with GN&C leads and other engineering disciplines.
  • Supporting the verification and validation of technical products.
  • Creation and review of engineering and software documentation.
  • Preparing and Presenting technical reports and briefings.
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