Contract Systems Engineer

Aegis Aerospace owns and operates The MISSE Flight Facility, a unique commercial, external testing facility permanently installed on the International Space Station (ISS), and we've designed and built lunar payloads to extend our Space Testing as a Service (STaaS) business model to the Moon. We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join the project team in Houston for our latest ISS Payload, TAMU SPIRIT, which is funded by Texas A&M University to expand the capability of Aegis Aerospace to test on the ISS.

The successful candidate will be an experienced systems engineer with a proven ability to manage requirements, qualification / verifications, and space vehicle integration for a complex ISS payload.

This is a contract role for 2-years, not to exceed 29 hours a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead trade studies to a timely conclusion, including final reports and final requirements
• Manage the baseline requirements
• Work closely with the design team to ensure that the design meets all requirements and can be verified
• Manage technical efforts for procurement, manufacturing and testing of hardware and software
• Prepare safety documentation for ISS safety reviews and present to the ISS safety board
• Work closely with our customer investigators to develop and integrate their experiments with TAMU SPIRIT
• Lead the verification and validation (V&V) planning and implementation
• Lead integration of the TAMU SPIRIT with the launch vehicle
• Make presentations to Texas A&M, NASA and other stakeholders
• Other duties as assigned
• Travel frequency is minimal. Evening and weekend work may sometimes be required

Minimum Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

About Aegis Aerospace : We are a woman-owned space and technology company headquartered in Houston, TX. Our primary objective is to support the Department of Defense and NASA in achieving their missions to defend the security of our country, reach new heights and to discover the unknown. We employ some of the brightest, most experienced engineering and technology experts in the U.S.

To learn more about Aegis Aerospace, visit our website at www.aegisaero.com.

Aegis Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer / M / F / disability / protected veteran employer.

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