Systems Engineer - Advanced Concepts (79J) - ERC

Job Title

Systems Engineer - Advanced Concepts (79J) - ERC

Career Level

Entry Level

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:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer - Advanced Concepts to join our JETS II team located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

As an Advanced Concepts Systems Engineer, you will: work with NASA JSC Engineering's EX2 Branch to define NASA's future exploration architecture and elements for both Lunar and Mars exploration. This team uses the NASA's framework and architecture for future human exploration as a starting point for future studies. This team studies lunar surface systems, future habitats, and all aspects for future Human Mars missions.

What you'll do all day:

• Develop concepts and define future human space exploration vehicles and missions.
• Study future Lunar mission campaigns, evaluating constraints across multiple space vehicles such as gateway, Orion, and HLS. Concepts for Lunar surface exploration campaigns and future long term Lunar surface missions will also be studied and developed.
• Develop and evolve conceptual vehicles by working with multi discipline teams in a highly collaborative environment.
• Work on architecture definitions and functional flows.
• Work on requirements definition, flow-down, assessment.
• Work on trade studies and stakeholder reviews.
• Work in a team environment and report to the team lead to provide status on progress and issues and for support.
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors.
• 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.
• NOTE: for Entry Level candidates - experience with universities projects is acceptable.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants.

Required - 3 or more of these skills:

• Experience with capturing trade space of potential 'system solutions' and establishing trade-study framework to allow evaluation of options.
• Developing and performing concept studies and parametric trade studies - along with documenting results.
• Conceptual engineering architecture development and architecture analysis for space vehicles and systems of space vehicles.
• Experience in early program concept development and formulation.
• Pre-Phase A engineering integration of space vehicle systems and across multiple vehicles operating in a system of systems.
• Experience with developing functional block diagrams and functional allocations.
• Experience creating concepts for operations of single vehicle systems as well as operations across multiple space vehicles.
• Experience with technology roadmap development and creating technology infusion plans.
• Experience with interface definition for vehicle subsystems.
• Experience collecting/understanding stakeholder needs.
• Experience with interface definitions between multiple vehicles or elements of a mission.
• Experience creating configuration growth or evolution plans and defining incremental capabilities for a mission sequence.
• Ability to define mission sequences both within a single mission, and across multiple missions.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation.

Desired skills and experience for this position:

• Experience with NASA university programs such as L'Space Academy, Student Launch Initiative.
• Experience with student teams such as AIAA Design Build Fly, ASME Baja, Solar Car, Cube Sat.
• Experience working with multiple NASA organizations.
• Experience working across NASA centers.
• Experience with NASA sponsored or funded technology development.
• Experience with space mission analysis (e.g., orbit analysis, delta-V budgets, spacecraft constraint evaluation).
• Familiarity with human space exploration systems (for example Orion, Commercial Crew, ISS, EMU/xEMU).
• 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 for engineering products.

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.