Orion Avionics Simulation Software Project Engineer (ADV0002QT)
Engineering Research
This is a Full-time position in Houston, TX posted January 26, 2022.
For more than 30 years, ERC has been delivering the advantage needed to solve our customers’ and the nation’s toughest challenges. A trusted partner to the Space and Defense communities, our leading-edge services enhance readiness, optimize performance, and help ensure mission success in the air, on the ground, and in space.
An essential part of our success is our corporate culture built on respect, empowerment, and collaboration. Our culture elevates our people, ensuring they provide best-in-class service and solutions to our customers. We always strive to do the right thing. We believe that are our people are our best asset and human connection our greatest strength.
Your role:
We need you to bring innovative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will benefit the quality of life of people around the world. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on new challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. Jacobs is NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working alongside NASA at centers across the United States.
We have the unique and significant role to partner with NASA at Johnson Space Center (JSC), to be part of every human spaceflight program – the International Space Station (ISS), NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts into deep space, and Gateway, the orbiting platform providing the home for astronauts to work and travel back and forth to the moon’s surface and serving as the platform for deep space exploration. From critical systems on the ISS to enable astronauts to live and work in space; to performing advanced development for systems leading to deep space exploration; to being part of the foundation for Gateway.
We also partner with NASA at JSC, the only NASA center in the United States to curate all astromaterial samples returned from exploration missions, to perform curation services, orbital debris analysis, and basic research to further humankind’s understanding of the origins of our solar system.
What you’ll do all day:
- Operate and maintain the Orion avionics simulation environment hardware and software in the Kedalion Lab
- Set up, configure, and maintain Orion FSW development tool set software and databases
- Perform Linux/Unix system administration, communication, user authentication and storage design, development, and maintenance
- Perform Server maintenance and backup
- Tune systems and network to meet customer needs
- Operate a helpdesk
- Understand and integrate leading edge computer technology to improve simulator infrastructure
- Assist hardware engineers with integrating and troubleshooting simulator systems
- Perform rapid troubleshooting in resolving system issues
- Work as a team member in other simulator teams in support of their need for computational platforms
- Effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Coordinate with external organization to perform security remediation
- Successfully operate in a highly dynamic simulation engineering environment with a team of engineers working to rapidly develop spacecraft simulation functionality
- Be customer-focused
- Perform other tasks assigned.
You will enjoy this job if you:
- Are a self-starter and require little oversight to complete given tasks
- Enjoy a fast-paced work environment
- Love working with diverse groups of individuals, including engineers and technicians
- Are good at communicating with people
- Have a positive attitude
- Enjoy multitasking
Minimum requirements for this position:
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.
- 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 a PhD from an accredited engineering school and four (4) years of direct engineering experience
Recent experience, within the last 2 years, developing and maintaining a simulation lab. Recent experience shall include:
- Linux/Unix System Administration
- Network analysis, configuration and administration
- Orion SOCRRATES simulation familiarity
- Orion spacecraft software development tool chain familiarity
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Desired skills and experience for this position:
- Hardware and software integration
- System and software configuration management
- System tuning and performance analysis
- System requirements analysis
- Firewall maintenance and administration
- Automation of system maintenance and reporting via scripting
- Security planning, implementation, and maintenance
- Software license management
- LDAP user authentication mechanisms familiarity
- Perforce P4V version control tool familiarity
- JSC network familiarity
- Simics simulation environment familiarity
- Familiarity with the OS/Comet satellite telemetry and commanding system
- Installation, maintenance and backup of Oracle databases
- Data acquisition and processing
- Software Development Life Cycle familiarity
What we offer:
- Competitive salaries.
- Continuing education assistance.
- Professional development allotment.
- Multiple healthcare benefit packages.
- 401K with employer matching.
- Paid time off (PTO) along with federally recognized holiday schedule.
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