This position is within the Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Tech Area of the Spaceflight Division within the Engineering Directorate at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. You will serve as a systems engineer, leading and supporting the design, development, and deployment of spaceflight technologies, instruments, demonstrations, facilities, and projects.

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. Manage and integrate stakeholder goals and objectives of hardware, flight systems, mission elements, or a mission within a system or product’s life cycle. Define, develop, or evaluate with subsystem or system level leads for system requirements, operational requirements, mission requirements, or system or operational objectives to meet mission requirements. Perform requirements management, incorporate system requirements and external stakeholder requirements, through the various phases of the product’s life cycle, and incorporate requirements’ updates and ensure that impacts are understood. Identify and establish guidelines, methodologies, procedures, and processes necessary to integrate components, assemblies, subsystems, and systems into the overall flight system to support project level system engineering processes. Analyze, test, evaluate, and verify and validate hardware, software, and system capabilities during integration and test and operational test campaigns. Participate in identifying, assessing, mitigating, prioritizing, or managing technical risks in system design, development, test, and operations as part of a team. Provide technical leadership or motivation for a diverse team, in backgrounds or experience levels, within a system or product’s life cycle. Work with systems engineering within a system or product’s life cycle of spaceflight systems (concept development, spacecraft development, integration and test, mission operations, and close-out). 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 trial 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: Performing fundamental engineering or system engineering tasks or processes in the areas of subsystem development, integration, or test, for spacecraft or mechanical subsystems, systems, robotics, or instruments; Developing systems or subsystems within any phases or portions of the phases from requirements development to subsystem or system implementation; and Creating technology deliverables applicable to engineering projects. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Performing systems engineering tasks or processes in the areas of subsystem development, integration, or test, such as on spacecraft subsystems, systems, robotics, or instruments; Developing systems or subsystems within multiple phases or portions of the phases from requirements to subsystem or system implementation; and Creating deliverables in coordination with technical teams in technologies applicable to spaceflight 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 Ames Research Center Moffett Blvd Mountain View, CA 94035 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]