Systems Engineer

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 Systems Engineer to join the team with Nexus, a teammate company.

The Systems Engineer will:

• Responsible for the planning, development, review, and maintenance of requirements and verification plans.
• Prepares materials for the system life cycle phasing, including SRR (System Readiness Review), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR).
• Works with team members to identify risks, develop risk statements, and to help them plan risk responses.
• Performs and reviews system level architecture trade studies and analyses that will influence the overall system design and performance.
• Might use a requirements management software and systems engineering tool such as DOORS, Cradle, or MagicDraw.
• Works in a team environment and reports to the team lead to provide status on progress and raise issues.
• Develops verification and validation plan, including verification matrix (success criteria for requirements) and tracks items to completion.
• Performs requirements and interface management, including preparation of change requests, assessment of impacts and management of requirements traceability, updates to verification planning and verification criteria, and interface control documents.
• Provides written and oral statuses in the form of presentations or reports to help represent the project at engineering boards.
• Prepares materials and tracks open actions for integrated analysis cycles.
• Works with team members to perform risk management, including identification, mitigation planning and tracking.
• Adapts to new design constraints, functions, and configurations as needed.
• Maintains a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors.
• Defines test flow, identifies and accounts for dependencies, and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Integrates requirements flow-down.​
• Performs other tasks assigned.

Requisition Qualifications:

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.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and may be expected to have a related master's degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience.
• Work experience in a Systems Engineering role in a NASA, DoD, or Aerospace environment.
• Experience with requirements development, design trades, risk analysis, and system analysis of space hardware.
• Experience with the design, assembly, verification, testing, and operation of space hardware.
• Basic knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures in the space hardware field, such as mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, and material selection.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation (for example ICD, EIS, PTRS, V&V Plan).​

Requisition Preferences:

• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.
• 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 or team leadership roles.