This posting is for a Systems Engineer Lead position to support NASA's Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD) - Moonbase at Marshall Space Flight Center. This position directly supports the Multi-Purpose Habitat (MPH) effort and serves as the lead for requirements management, verification planning, and verification integration activities between NASA, International Partners, and other exploration program stakeholders.
The selected candidate will provide technical leadership for the development, maintenance, implementation, and verification of MPH requirements throughout the program lifecycle. The position serves as a key interface between NASA organizations, international partners, systems engineering teams, and program leadership to ensure system requirements and verification products remain technically sound, traceable, and executable throughout the program lifecycle.
The responsible engineer will:
- Lead requirements development, management, decomposition, and traceability activities for complex aerospace systems.
- Coordinate requirements integration across multidisciplinary engineering teams and external stakeholders.
- Support development, implementation, and maintenance of requirements management processes, databases, and associated processes.
- Facilitate requirements reviews, assessments, and change management activities.
- Develop, document, and maintain tailored, joint verification and validation strategies, plans, and compliance documentation. Coordinate joint verification planning activities with international partners and technical organizations to ensure verification objectives, responsibilities, and success criteria are clearly defined.
- Track verification status, closure activities, and complex metrics.
- Support configuration management and change control processes related to requirements and verification products.
- Participate in technical reviews, milestone reviews, boards, and program decision forums.
- Develop technical presentations, reports, and status products for management and stakeholders.
- Lead technical working groups and facilitate coordination among engineering organizations, customers, contractors, and partner organizations.
- Support systems engineering and integration activities across all phases of the system lifecycle.
- Perform other duties as required in support of Habitation Systems development and integration.
Qualifications:Required Education/Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of 20 years of direct engineering experience or MS degree with 18 years' experience, preferably supporting aerospace systems development, systems engineering, requirements management, or verification activities.
- Demonstrated experience working with complex technical systems throughout the development lifecycle.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead technical teams and coordinate activities across multiple organizations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development and presentation of technical information.
- Experience working across multidisciplinary technical teams.
Preferences:- Experience supporting NASA human spaceflight programs, aerospace, defense, or highly regulated technical programs
- Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORs, DOORS Next Generation (DNG), Jama, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience supporting requirements traceability, verification planning, compliance, and certification activities.
- Familiarity with systems engineering standards and lifecycle review processes.
- Experience working with domestic and international partners.
- Experience supporting configuration management and change control processes.
- Experience developing technical metrics, status reporting, and program assessments.
- Experience supporting human spaceflight, exploration systems, habitat systems, and other complex aerospace systems.
Essential Functions
Work Environment:Office environment. Requires ability to provide clear, concise, accurate and timely communication, both verbally and in writing (100%). Requires ability to interact professionally with co-workers, management, and client (100%). Requires travel in the domestic USA (5%). Requires ability to work at a computer for long periods of time (100%).
Physical Requirements:Requires sitting for extended periods of time in meetings with peers, management, and with our client at NASA facilities to discuss technical issues (10%). Also, requires sitting for extended periods of time at a desk to write reports and perform engineering tasks (80%). Requires ability to use stairs or elevators for access between floors and multiple buildings at NASA and our facilities (10%).
Equipment and Machines:Requires ability to operate a personal computer, a telephone, fax machine, copier, calculator, and other general office equipment (100%).
Attendance:Normal workday 7:30-4:30, Monday thru Friday. Minimal overtime may be required (10%) to meet schedule milestones and to support technical demands of the job. Regular attendance is a necessity, and adequate arrangements for delegating duties during absences are required.
Other Essential Functions:The ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and to make rational decisions, and to exercise good judgment is essential (100%). Grooming and dress must be appropriate for the position and must not impose a safety risk/hazard to the employee or others.
Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.
Final compensation is determined through a comprehensive evaluation of several key factors, including the candidate's educational background, specialized technical expertise, and relevant professional experience. We also consider internal equity, prevailing market data, and specific contractual or funding requirements to ensure competitive and equitable offer alignment.
