Parachute Modeling Engineer - Remote

Parachute Modeling Engineer 

Location: Remote for NASA Johnson Space Center
Status: Full Time

Clearance: Background check

U.S. Citizenship required

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Parachute Modeling Engineer to join the team with Astrion, a teammate company. This position is opened to remote work.

DESIRED QUALIFICATION / SKILLS

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a minimum of 2- 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Experience with 6-DOF and multi-body flight mechanics simulations.
• Experience with software development (any language).
• Experience developing, verifying, and validating parachute simulation models.
• Experience analyzing spacecraft performance.
• Experience in product delivery utilizing source code management tools such as Git/GitLab.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and contractor employees.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable successful performance in a collaborative engineering team.
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision.
• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This position will work on NASA's Development and Analysis Team, which provides software development and analytic support for a variety of NASA and commercial programs, including Orion and the Artemis Program. The selected applicant will:

• Develop a state-of-the-art multi-body parachute system model, including parachute deployment, inflation, and full-open flight, for use on the Orion and Commercial Crew programs and future programs.
• Integrate the multi-body parachute system model into NASA's flight mechanics simulation (Julia) and NASA Trick-based simulations (C++).
• Collaborate with parachute analysis subject matter experts to plan and reconstruct parachute drop tests and reconstruct the parachute system performance from spacecraft flights.
• Assist the GN&C team in performing parachute system analyses, including assessments of the touchdown conditions.
• Assist the parachute analysis team with executing simulations on our High-Performance Computing (HPC) system.
• Perform verification and validation for flight mechanics models and simulations.
• Develop requirements documentation for flight mechanics models and simulations.
• Provide recommendations for improvements in design and software development processes.
• Perform other duties as required.

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