Navigation Engineer SME – NASA Lunar Navigation Systems

Essential Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the areas of spacecraft navigation systems, mission design and analysis
• Partner with existing team members and become fluent in the tools of choice for the mission.
• Perform analysis and simulation of novel navigation techniques to achieve future mission and systems requirements.
• Prepare technical presentations and documentation of your work.
• Document and communicate your work to peers and customers through informal forums as well as potentially in conference and journal publications.
• Manage effective communications between customer, team, peers, and senior management.
• Develop relationships with the customer and team members to ensure delivery of our corporate promise.
• Promote corporate culture and foster an environment of collaboration and innovation within the team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, computer science, physics, or related discipline
• 10+ years of experience in:
• Performing analysis and simulation of navigation techniques to achieve future mission and systems requirements.
• Satellite navigation systems, measurements, and processing techniques.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Proficiency in MATLAB.
• Strong written and verbal communication to effectively communicate with missions, team members and management at the appropriate technical level.
• Demonstrated ability to be self-motivated and able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Obtain successful completion of a government background check.
• U.S. citizenship.

Desired Background

• Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field.
• Experience with Flight Software (FSW) development.
• Systems engineering including requirements development and verification.
• Proficiency in C programming language.
• Leading and implementing software development projects in a related field.
• Experience with FreeFlyer, GMAT, ODTK, or other mission design and analysis tools.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket or similar productivity/organization tools.
• Ability to quickly connect in-person and in writing, and to actively listen and perceive the needs, values or opinions of others.
• Proactivity in identifying and addressing challenges to include innovations that result in positive organizational impact.
• Experience with spacecraft flight dynamics.
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.