HALO Spacecraft Software Engineer (ADV0004MH)

Job Title

HALO Spacecraft Software Engineer (ADV0004MH)

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 a HALO Spacecraft Software Engineer to join our team.

What you'll do all day:

To fulfill this critical Halo Spacecraft Software, ECLSS/EPS, Engineering role, you will need expertise in all aspects of the Human Rated software development life cycle, including:

• Software Management and Oversight
• Software release planning and estimation
• Software testing and verification
• Review lower-level software testing and verification
• Software Process Assessments (including Compliance assessments) across the full development life cycle
• Perform software product assessment for completeness of design and implementation throughout the full software development lifecycle
• Ensure NASA requirements are satisfied by design solutions and support production/control board meetings, design, and system reviews
• Support the development of CDR and manufacturing readiness review products and participate in module system reviews
• Interface with NASA and spacecraft system engineering teams
• Environmental Control and Life Support System
  • Provide engineering insight and oversight support for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) prime contractor and Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) subcontractors
  • Coordinate with the Gateway ECLSS System Management team on programmatic requirement change requests, design review support, interface definition and control, verification integration, and provide status on high level development progress and issues
  • Monitor system integration, interface management and coordination
• Electrical Power System
  • Provide engineering insight and oversight support for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) prime contractor and Electric Power System (EPS) subcontractors
• Coordinate with the Gateway EPS System Management team on programmatic requirement change requests, design review support, interface definition and control, verification integration, and provide status on high level development progress and issues
• Monitor system integration, interface management and coordination
• Demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and coordination skills
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors
• Work in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• 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.

• BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of fourteen (14) years of direct engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and twelve (12) years of direct engineering experience, or a Ph.D. degree and nine (9) years of direct engineering experience
• Experience with the development of space systems requirements documents including functional requirements and verification success criteria
• Experience in risk assessment and implementation of risk reducing measures
• Experience leading a software development project across the full development life cycle Technical (Avionics & Software)
• Experience developing software across the full development life cycle
• Safety Critical Human-Rated Software Development
• Human Rated Mature Software Processes
• Data driven software systems and applications
• Software Testing and Verification (including Independent V&V)
• Writing/reviewing test and verification definitions
• Avionics C&DH (Command and Data Handling)
• Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• Autonomous Systems Technical (ECLSS)
  • Experience with the design, assembly, verification, testing, and operation of space ECLSS systems including Atmosphere Revitalization Systems, Atmosphere Conditioning, Environmental Monitoring, Pressure Control Systems, and Emergency Systems
• Experience with ECLSS Emergency Systems and System Safety Technical (EPS)
  • Experience with design, assembly, verification, safety, testing and operation of distributed spacecraft power systems Professional
• Proficiency with team collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Skype, SharePoint, Jira
• Experience working as part of an Integrated Product Team to develop avionic systems
• Excellent communication, negotiation and coordination skills and strong customer service attitude
• Experience fostering a collaborative team environment
• Must be able to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision
• Fostering and working in a collaborative team environment
• Effectively communicate across a wide range of technical disciplines, with vendors/contractors, direct customers, and upper management
• Ability to prepare written documents/presentations and to verbally present at various meetings

Desired skills and experience for this position:

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation
• Knowledge of commonly used NASA concepts, practices, processes, and procedures relating to mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, material selection, and design software and tools
• Knowledge of the NASA Gateway Spacecraft systems and software, specifically for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO)
• Experience with Core Flight System (cFS) Applications (or similar flight software framework)
• Experience with Time Triggered Ethernet (or similar protocols such as ARINC 664)
• Experience working as part of an Integrated Product Team to develop avionic systems
• Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) for Distributed Avionics Architectures
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Familiarity with:

• Software project management experience
• Safety Critical Human-Rated Software Development Processes
• NASA software and systems development standards (incl NPR 7150.2)
• NASA/JSC documentation databases as well as typical systems engineering products
• NASA/JSC engineering processes
• Object oriented software development
• Agile software development
• C/C++ coding
• Linux scripting languages such as Python
• ARINC 664, 653, SAE AS6802 or RTC DO178
• Data Validation
• Code Review
• Unit Testing
• Algorithm Design Document
• Run for Record test and results

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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