Senior Systems Engineer

Cepeda Systems and Software Analysis, a rapidly growing small business in Huntsville, AL, is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer supporting NASA’s HLS (Human Landing System) Program at Marshall Space Flight Center. This position will provide engineering integration services across Artemis mission elements and programs such as SLS, Orion, and xEVA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support coordination of operations and hardware capability design definition, requirements development, and verification planning for proposed systems
• Interaction with Level 2 and 3 teams to ensure all requirements and integration aspects are appropriately defined, negotiated and documented
• Interact with Artemis Programs for creation and documentation of operations definition, analysis cycle data coordination, function/requirement specific assessment and issue resolution as well as Ground Rules and Assumptions in support of integration
• Interacting with Analysis teams - loads, environments etc. to coordinate the mission unique analyses, particularly associated with visiting vehicle interaction.
• Identify design options within the solution space and lead or support functional architecting and/or functional analyses
• Perform thorough technical assessments of proposed internal and external interactions, requirements, planning and execution to understand the impacts imposed by external design and product development/updates
• As necessary, generate and coordinate Interface Requirement Document(s) (IRD) as well as Interface Control Document(s) (ICD) content to ensure the necessary and complete integration of requirements
• Act as Change Package Engineer as needed to foster review of interface or other related documentation through review (to potentially include presenting at various working groups, forums, and boards)
• Facilitate cross program exchanges as needed (data, hardware, software)

Minimum Requirements:

Clearance:

US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Science field

Experience Required:

Minimum of 8 years related experience or a master’s degree with 5 years of experience.

Experience Preferred:

• An understanding of vehicle systems definition, functional requirement development, and/or design integration is required.
• Must be able to breakdown complex problems or issues into manageable pieces to facilitate resolution of technical concerns.
• Experience reading and working with engineering drawings, interface control documents, configuration documents, or other technical documentation is expected.
• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, customer relation skills, and presentation skills are required.
• Experience negotiating and coordinating top-level interface/integration agreements

Knowledge/Skills Preferred:

Understanding of the NASA systems engineering policies and procedures, and familiarity with the Artemis Program