Senior Staff Engineer Chief

Description

McCallie Associates, Inc. is the prime contractor for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Systems Engineering Advanced Services II (SEAS II) contract. McCallie has an immediate need for a Sr. Staff Engineer – Chief with at least 30 years of space mission or instrument systems engineering experience to support on-going NASA space mission projects. This position is for a Simulation Lead.

Responsibilities

• Understand all simulator stakeholder needs.
• Own the development of simulator operations concepts, simulator requirements, provide SME technical reviews of vendor specifications and designs.
• Ensure delivered simulators meet requirements/needs, facilitate understanding between all simulator stakeholders and vendors.
• Author simulator ICDs with vendor and stakeholder inputs, coordinate and manage simulator working groups and other meetings, provide progress updates and identified risks to project management and stakeholders.
• Updates to simulator OpsCon presentations and documents to reflect recent updates to the project’s current approach toward mission testing and mission readiness.
• Develop a draft “Simulator and Test ICD” that defines the interfaces between simulators and ground system test equipment for all L10 simulators.
• Develop a project Simulator Management Plan that describes how simulator resources will be managed by the project, agency partners, and vendors post-delivery.
• Provide SME reviews on instrument simulators designs to ensure OpsCon and requirements will be met. Instrument simulators include LIS, LOpS, and SDVF.
• Provide SME reviews of instrument simulator I&T products.
• Manage updates to simulator requirements and traceability.
• Begin working Spacecraft simulator activities like the instrument simulator items in this list, once a SC vendor is on contract.

Qualifications

• World-renowned expertise in space and/or ground hardware and/or software systems analysis, design, development, integration, test, validation, and orbital operations.
• Support of complex and/or technologically challenging tasks including the leadership in generating the Task Plan and Work Control Plan, providing guidance during the task implementation, conducting technology assessments and making recommendations for technology insertions, making trade study assessments, and recommendations, supporting CDR and PDR, and reviewing deliverables, providing technical consultation advice to Task Managers regarding design issues, development and test approaches, and test result assessments, leading teams established by the Program Manager to conduct investigations of programmatic or task-level problems and to make recommendations for recovery plans; and providing recommendations regarding Mission Assurance Program Implementation considerations.

Skills

• Strong background in requirements management, interface requirements, requirements validation, verification, top-level verification planning, integration and test.
• Experience in end-to-end mission requirements traceability and validation.
• Experience with NASA policies and procedures regarding program/project management lifecycles and systems engineering.
• Experience with database tools, requirements management and system architecture tools.
• Experience with the NASA system requirements tools such as DOORS.
• Experience with testing methodologies and test planning activities.
• Experience with NASA Risk Management Guidelines and Processes and Tools.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) software tools.

Security Requirements

Currently hold or ability to obtain a NASA Goddard badge (NACI background investigation) is required.