Senior Systems Engineer
Johnson Space Center, TX
Engineering /
Contract /
Remote
Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is looking for 2 experienced Systems Engineer to support a customer with a pressurized rover mission! The pressurized rover will greatly expand our ability to explore, conduct science research, and live and work on the lunar surface by providing a home for astronauts away from the base camp for extended periods of time.
Location: Remote w/travel (Japan, Johnson Space Center)
Contract position: 3-5 years
Responsibilities
- In coordination with the Project Lead Systems Engineer, and project systems engineering team performs systems engineering and technical integration across the lifecycle of the project in concert with internal, external, and international organizations. Roles, responsibilities, and tasks are expected to evolve over the lifecycle of the project as the project evolves. Activities may include but are not limited to:
- Technical integration and leadership across disciplines
- Leadership of technical teams in the planning, execution and on time completion of design analysis cycles and trade studies
- Supports the project’s systems engineering structures and processes that lead to a certified vehicle
- Systems engineering process development, tailoring, and management
- Architecture definition and functional flows
- Requirements definition, flow-down, assessment, and verification planning
- Plans, develops, and executes major project reviews and leads internal project reviews
- Interface definition and management
- Integrated analysis and margin management
- Technical baseline product management (MEL, PEL, THEL, Mass Properties)
- Collaborative environment development, maintenance, and implementation
- Critical path and technical risk management
- System hardware and software configuration management over lifecycle
- Data management
- Discrepancy management and participation in material/failure review boards
- Certification and acceptance package generation
- Test campaign planning and execution:
- test interface and environment definition and management
- technical integration leadership and issue resolution across disciplines
- lead development and deployment of special test equipment
- test anomaly investigation and disposition
- pre-and post-test review leadership
- test schedule management
- day of test execution
- Coordination and management of qualification and acceptance test requirement definition, assessment, and flow-down from system to unit (component) level
- Support hardware owners in establishing overall hardware qualification and acceptance test planning to meet applicable requirements
- Test and verification leadership with emphasis on environmental, human in the loop, and interface testing
- Technical review of verification products (test plans, procedures, reports)
- Support failure analysis reviews to identify impacts and/or recommend changes to test programs
- Support and make recommendations regarding retest of hardware (e.g. for redesign, repair, new environments)
- Seeks opportunities for innovation to improve cost, schedule, technical performance, and safety within the project and program. Partners these opportunities with the Project Lead Systems Engineer.
Required:
- Required Characteristics
- Knowledge of and previous experience in delivering flight hardware at the project or program level
- Systems engineering experience
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills
- Desirable, but not required
- SharePoint Experience
- Experience working with international partners
- Experience applying the Doors and MagicDraw Tools within multi-level programs.
Other:
- Occasional support of international meetings in the evenings from approximately 18:30 to 21:00 Central Time may be required.
- Occasional international travel may be required.
- OGE-450 and/or ability to be cleared for procurement sensitive discussions may be required
- Colocation with project team on site at JSC is required.
$150,000 - $175,000 a year
Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.
Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance, InSight Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation. We also work on classified programs.
Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.
We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan.
Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
