As the System Engineering Lead within the Applied System Engineering Branch at Johnson Space Center, you will play a pivotal role in providing essential systems engineering leadership for space flight missions, encompassing payloads, vehicles, and government-furnished equipment. You will serve as the lead systems engineer for projects, steering teams towards the creation of development life cycle artifacts and ensuring the delivery of exceptional systems.

Duties

Duties described below are at the highest grade advertised. Duties assigned at lower grade levels will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee. Guides, implements, and manages project team activities including: defining system stakeholder needs, decomposing system functions, developing technical requirements, negotiating and capturing system interfaces performing design analyses. Executes the planning of system verification and validation activities, and system testing and operations. Oversees the development and implementation of systems engineering management plans, concept of operations, operational practices, system requirements documents, verification and validation plans. Manages projects as a Systems Engineering Lead guiding teams to create development life cycle artifacts, vehicle systems, and government furnished equipment. Identifies necessary artifacts to support development maturation and milestone reviews and prioritizes quality technical work for team members. Mentors junior systems engineers in the discipline of the system engineering. Collaborates with project management and chief engineer in process and standard tailoring for milestone reviews and deliverables. Manages across disciplines to develop hardware and software for vehicle systems, government furnished equipment, and payloads for space flight. Leads System Engineering and Integration activities from Cradle to Grave of the life cycle. 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.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• 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-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Implementing system engineering and integration activities such as conducting a trade study and developing Concept of Operations (ConOps), Systems Requirements Document (SRD), Verfication and Validation (V&V) Plans, and Flight Certifications Plans; Utilizing system engineering processes and standards to develop flight hardware; Supporting multi-discipline or cross-center teams to provide systems engineering for programs and projects. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Overseeing system engineering and integration activities such as conducting a trade study and developing Concept of Operations (ConOps), Systems Requirements Document (SRD), Verification and Validation (V&V) Plans, and Flight Certifications Plans; Guiding the development of flight hardware and software utilizing system engineering processes and standards; Directing multi-discipline or cross-center teams to provide systems engineering support for programs and projects. 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. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.

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