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Job opening: Aerospace Engineer, AST - Automation and Robotics Systems (Direct Hire)

Salary: $134 346 - 174 647 per year
City: Houston
Published at: Oct 10 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
As Lead of Cross Program Modeling and Simulation, you will be responsible for leading a team that works with program offices and model providers to ensure standards are properly followed and sound engineering practices are used in the development, validation, credibility assessment, and use of modeling and simulation tools for space flight missions.

Duties

Coordinate with NASA programmatic leads to understand their modeling and simulation needs and desires. Coordinate with simulation model providers across the agency to ensure NASA modeling and simulation standards are being properly applied to meet programmatic needs. Lead a team of engineers to work with NASA programs and model providers to ensure consistent and sound engineering practices are used throughout the development, validation, and use of NASA simulation tools. Provide expertise and serve as an advocate for NASA's modeling and simulation standards, helping to educate the NASA community on their criticality for ensuring safe and effective human spaceflight. Participate or lead efforts to update NASA's modeling and simulation standards to ensure they keep up-to-date with industry trends without impacting the safety or quality of NASA's simulation products. Develop short- and long-term plans to use available funds to meet NASA modeling and simulation needs, and find ways to acquire additional funds as those needs evolve. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

  • This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
  • Position subject to pre-employment background investigation
  • You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement
  • This position may require a one year probationary period

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. NASA utilizes OPM-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Designing, implementing, validating, or using simulation models of human spacecraft systems. Leading technical teams to build software products to meet customer specifications. Developing tools compliant with NASA's standards for models and simulation systems including configuration management, developing/validating software against requirements, and accrediting products for proper usage. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

Basic Education Requirement: You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following:
a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs
b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science
c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus.

If you did not complete a qualifying bachelor's degree, you may be eligible if you have obtained a graduate degree in an AST qualifying field, as listed above.

Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for this position.

Engineering degrees earned within the United States: Engineering degrees earned within the United States must be from a college or university that has at least one ABET accredited engineering program. To find out if a school has at least one ABET accredited program, please visit http://www.abet.org.

Engineering degrees earned outside the United States: Engineering degrees earned outside the United States must be recognized by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), often known as accords. These are non-governmental agreements among organizations that accredit academic degree programs. MRAs recognize the substantial equivalence of mature accreditation systems and programs accredited by signatory organizations within their jurisdictions. For a listing of Signatories, please visit, https://www.abet.org/global-presence/mutual-recognition-agreements/is-your-program-recognized/.

Science and other related degrees earned within the United States: Science and other related degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

Science and other related degrees earned outside the United States: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

  • Address Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058 US
  • Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
  • Phone: 1-877-677-2123
  • Email: [email protected]

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