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Senior Engineer – Gateway / Test and Verification Planning and Oversight
Houston, TXProof of U.S. Citizenship or US Permanent Residency is a requirement for this position
The Senior T&V Engineer – Gateway / Test and Verification Planning and Oversight will:
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.
The Senior T&V Engineer – Gateway / Test and Verification Planning and Oversight will:
- Participate as a lead in a team environment for Gateway Test, Verification, and Validation planning, working with NASA's Gateway Program and partners to
- Develop policy, plans, tools to enable Gateway Verification and Validation
- Collaboratively plan, support, execute, assess, and close the resulting verification and validation events
- Support coordination and review activities resulting in verification and validation closure and requirement closure
- Communicate T&V Office Vision and Gateway V&V Plans to broad audience across the Gateway program, to include international partners and module commercial providers/partners
- Lead efforts to develop Detailed Verification Objectives, Validation Objectives, Verification Events, and Verification Closure Notices
- Define methods and processes for creation of these artifacts
- Work with requirement owners in the creation and approval process
- Define automated tool system needs to facilitate
- Define coordination processes for requirement closure
- Work in partnership with JSC lab facilities to plan and execute verification and validation testing
- Support Certification of Flight Readiness planning and execution
- Work with team members to identify risks, develop risk statements and responses
- Lead team members in the development of automated tools and other products
- Work in a team environment and report to the office manager to provide status on progress and issues and for support
- Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors
- Perform other duties as required
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.
- BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of fourteen (14) years of direct engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and twelve (12) years of direct engineering experience, or a Ph.D. degree and nine (9) years of direct engineering experience. Experience with large system Verification and Validation planning and execution for aerospace systems
- Strong communications and negotiation skills
- Experience with the NASA Systems Development Lifecycle, Life Cycle Reviews, and associated products
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation
- Experience with systems engineering toolsets to include MBSE
- Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
- Must be able to organize and prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision
- Experience working in a team environment
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office products
- Familiarity with NASA/JSC engineering processes
- Familiarity with NASA/JSC documentation databases as well as typical systems engineering products
- INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification