Senior Mission Design Engineer

Company: Associates Systems LLC
Location: Houston
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Temp to Perm Opportunity!
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As a--Senior Mission Design Engineer--you will:--

• Provide software development and scripting of NASA's Copernicus trajectory optimization tool and related applications. Specific tasks will include:
• Addition of new features and algorithms requested by the NASA customer
• Refactoring and improvements to the architecture for program efficiency
• Integration with other trajectory software and tools
• General program maintenance and bug fixes
• Regression testing and documentation
• Provide--trajectory products supporting spacecraft mission design & analysis for advanced Orion crewed missions such as Artemis 1-3 and related missions.
• Perform trajectory optimization runs to characterize vehicle performance and mission availability for a variety of scenarios.
• Development, integration and testing of new algorithms for evaluation of vehicle and mission performance.
• Perform other duties as required.--
  Qualifications
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  Required Education/Experience/Skills:
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  T his 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 ten (10) years of direct engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and eight (8) years of direct engineering experience, or Ph.D. and four (4) years of direct engineering experience.
  • The candidate must have demonstrated capability to independently devise solutions to complex engineering problems by their own efforts and by soliciting inputs from other technical experts.
  • Expertise in orbital mechanics and/or spacecraft mission design with an emphasis in trajectory optimization.
  • Expertise-- in the modern object-oriented Fortran programming language and the Python scripting language.
  • Experience working in a team environment. Preferences:
    • MS in Aerospace Engineering with a concentration in orbital mechanics.
    • Expertise in spacecraft trajectory optimization, including use of software-- tools such as Copernicus, GMAT, MONTE, STK, or FreeFlyer.
    • Experience in spacecraft guidance, navigation, control algorithms and software.
    • Experience in high performance computing, including Message Passing Interface (MPI) or Coarrays, and SLURM.

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