Gateway HALO Spacecraft Software Engineer - (ADV000837)

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. Jacobs is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Gateway HALO Spacecraft Software Engineer to join the team with our Engineering Division.

To fulfill this critical Gateway Halo Spacecraft Software Engineering role, you will need expertise in all aspects of the Human Rated software development life cycle, including:

• Software Management and Oversight
• Software release planning and estimation
• Software testing and verification
• Review lower-level software testing and verification
• Software Process Assessments (including Compliance assessments) across the full development life cycle
• Perform software product assessment for completeness of design and implementation throughout the full software development lifecycle
• Ensure NASA requirements are satisfied by design solutions and support production/control board meetings, design and system reviews
• Support the development of CDR and manufacturing readiness review products and participate in module system reviews
• Interface with NASA and spacecraft system engineering teams
• Subsystem Software insight and oversight
• Provide engineering insight and oversight support for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) prime contractor on assigned subsystem or subsystems.
• Coordinate with the Gateway Subsystem Management team on programmatic requirement change requests, design review support, interface definition and control, verification integration, and provide status on high level development progress and issues
• Monitor system integration, interface management and coordination
• Demonstrate excellent communication, collaboration, and coordination skills
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors
• Work in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

Requisition Qualifications:

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 minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and may be expected to have a related master's degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience

Technical (General)

• Experience with the development of space systems requirements documents including functional requirements and verification success criteria
• Experience in risk assessment and implementation of risk reducing measures
• Experience leading a software development project across the full development life cycle

Technical (Avionics & Software)

• Experience developing software across the full development life cycle Safety Critical Human-Rated Software Development
• Human Rated Mature Software Processes
• Data driven software systems and applications
• Software Testing and Verification (including Independent V&V)
• Writing/reviewing test and verification definitions
• Avionics C&DH (Command and Data Handling)
• Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• Autonomous Systems

Professional

• Proficiency with team collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Skype, SharePoint, Jira
• Experience working as part of an Integrated Product Team to develop avionic systems
• Excellent communication, negotiation and coordination skills and strong customer service attitude
• Experience fostering a collaborative team environment
• Must be able to organize and prioritize tasks in order to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision
• Effectively communicate across a wide range of technical disciplines, with vendors/contractors, direct customers and upper management
• Ability to prepare written documents/presentations and to verbally present at various meetings

Requisition Preferences:

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles and associated documentation
• Knowledge of commonly used NASA concepts, practices, processes and procedures relating to mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, material selection, and design software and tools
• Knowledge of the NASA Gateway Spacecraft systems and software, specifically for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO)
• Experience with Core Flight System (cFS) Applications (or similar flight software framework)
• Experience with Time Triggered Ethernet (or similar protocols such as ARINC 664)
• Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) for Distributed Avionics Architectures
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Familiarity with:

• Software project management experience
• Safety Critical Human-Rated Software Development Processes
• NASA software and systems development standards (incl NPR 7150.2)
• NASA/JSC documentation databases as well as typical systems engineering products
• NASA/JSC engineering processes
• Object oriented software development
• Agile software development
• C/C++ coding
• Linux scripting languages such as Python
• ARINC 664, 653, SAE AS6802 or RTC DO178
• Data Validation
• Code Review
• Unit Testing
• Algorithm Design Document
• Run for Record test and results