Advanced Mission Design Engineer (ADV0005KF)

Job Title

Advanced Mission Design Engineer (ADV0005KF)

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Job Type

Full-Time

Location

Johnson Space Center - Houston, TX 77058 US (Primary)

Job Description

For more than 30 years, ERC has been delivering the advantage needed to solve our customers' and the nation's toughest challenges. ERC is a trusted partner to the Defense and Space communities. We provide the advanced engineering, innovative technology, and subject-matter expertise to deliver the mission results our customers need to keep the nation safe and secure. Our unique solutions enhance readiness, optimize performance, and help ensure success in the air, on the ground and in space.

An essential part of our success is our corporate culture built on respect, empowerment, and collaboration. Our culture elevates our people, ensuring they provide best-in-class service and solutions to our customers. We always strive to do the right thing. We believe that are our people are our best asset and human connection our greatest strength.

Our ~2,000 employees work on the most critical missions in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force (USAF), NASA, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). We provide support for Test and Evaluation (T&E), Modeling & Simulation, Agile Software Development, Systems Engineering, and more. Our teams' current projects range from engineering and logistics support for vital space hardware to platform and weapons modeling, simulation, and engineering.

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Your role:

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. We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Mission Design Engineer to join our team.

What you'll do all day:

• Provide trajectory products supporting spacecraft mission design & analysis for advanced Orion crewed missions such as Artemis I-III and related missions
• Perform trajectory optimization runs to characterize vehicle performance and mission availability for a variety of scenarios
• Develop, integrate, and test new algorithms for evaluation of vehicle and mission performance
• Provide software development and scripting of NASA's Copernicus trajectory optimization tool and related applications Integrate Copernicus with other trajectory software and tools
• Develop requirements documentation for mission design products
• Provide recommendations for improvements in design and software development processes
• Perform other duties as required

You will love this job if you:

• Are a self-starter and require little oversight to complete given tasks
• Enjoy a fast-paced work environment
• Love working with diverse groups of individuals, including engineers and technicians
• Are good at communicating with people
• Have a positive attitude
• Enjoy multitasking

Minimum requirements for this position:

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.

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in the field or in a related area
• Experience with orbital mechanics and designing spacecraft trajectories
• Knowledge in the development of spacecraft mission design algorithms and analyzing spacecraft performance
• Experience developing, verifying, and validating simulation models
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and various contractor employees
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable successful performance in a collaborative engineering environment
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision
• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings
• Experience with Microsoft Office products

Desired skills and experience for this position:

• PhD in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on trajectory design, optimization, and orbital mechanics
• Experience with 3- DOF spacecraft simulations
• Proficiency in Fortran, Python and Linux
• Experience in product delivery and management utilizing source code management tools such as Git/GitLab

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Professional development allotment
• Multiple healthcare benefit packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with federally recognized holiday schedule

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