As a Computer Engineer, AST, Data Systems Engineer you will serve as the Mars Accent Vehicle Sub-System Manager with the Flight and Ground Software Division, Software Systems Engineering Branch. You will manage and lead the Flight Software Development efforts for the Mars Accent Vehicle Project under the Mars Sample Return Program.

Duties

Oversees Mars Accent Flight Software design, development, testing, verification, delivery, maintenance, and support using a blended customer team. Provides metrics, budget concerns, and resource constraints to leadership and the engineering project. Serves as a point of contact between the flight software engineering team and other project stakeholders, including managers, and external contractors. Oversees the integration of the flight software systems, such as Guidance Navigation and Control code and Mission and Fault Management models. Ensures that the flight software meets all the mission's requirements. Provides leadership, expertise, and guidance to the Flight Software, Ground, and Sub-System development teams. Manages and maintains the code and resource repositories, providing access to code/resource base as applicable. Coordinates flight software risks, hazards, and resolution across the Mars Accent Vehicle Project. This includes contingency planning for software-related anomalies or failures during the mission. Provides guidance and oversight in Avionics and Flight Software Systems Engineering and Integration domains such as fault management, mission event sequencing, aborts, and interfacing with external flight and ground elements. Ensures that all flight software engineering development complies with the NASA Procedural Requirements and that software-related documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date. Supports and provides input to the Integrated Product Teams in preparing and presenting at program reviews, including major design reviews, test reviews, and post-test analysis. 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

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• If the individual selected is currently at the GS-15 grade level, they will be detailed at their current grade and step. If the individual is a current GS-14 they will be temporarily promoted to the GS-15 level.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below and have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, which has equipped you with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above. 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-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Providing technical guidance for Space Rated Flight Software Engineering Project utilizing and adhering to NASA Software Engineering Requirements; Providing flight software status and recommendations to engineering teams during phases of the Avionics and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) such as fault management, mission event sequencing, aborts, or interfacing with external flight and ground systems; and Developing, integrating, and delivering flight software for space launch systems. 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; and that provided an in-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical applications of computer science, including digital computer system architecture and system software organization, the representation and transformation of information structures, and the theoretical models for such representations and transformations.

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://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

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

Contacts

• Address Marshall Space Flight Center Marshall Space Flight Ctr Huntsville, AL 35811 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]