Payload Systems Engineer

The Leidos Human Health and Performance Contract (HHPC) has an opening for a Payload Systems Engineer in Houston Texas at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).

The Research Operations and Integration (ROI) Rack Payload Systems Engineer (PSE) supports International Space Station (ISS) human research science operations at JSC/NASA Mission Control. As such this position is responsible for preflight and realtime engineering support and serves as the technical expert on the research racks housing science hardware and consumables. The responsibilities include software testing verification documentation and implementation of the systems level engineering elements needed to prepare hardware and procedures for inflight experiments. PSEs also assist in the preparation of facilities for crew training activities and train the crew on Human Research Facility hardware. As a member of the increment ground control team on console in Mission Control the PSE is responsible for monitoring the health and status of all active onboard equipment and the realtime software with which to control functionality of the Human Research Facility Rack. hardware and software anomaly resolution and science data management are also a part of the PSEs responsibilities. The PSE acts as the subject matter expert for all Facility hardware and engineering activities required to prepare and support mission operations on the ISS.

Responsibilities:

• Support console shifts (typically second and third shifts) in the Telescience Support Center at JSC as required for Research Operations and Integration (ROI) experiment sessions. Serves as primary contractor point of contact to the MSFC Payload Rack Officer (PRO) and interfaces with the Data Management Coordinator and other Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) personnel.

• Writes test plans hardware operating procedures and mission data requirements

• Creates maintains and publishes the Increment specific Data Requirement Document.

• Reviews Change Requests (CRs) and assesses them for impacts to the Hardware and Data Operations products and/or documents.

• Is the engineering subject matter expert for inmission operations and anomaly resolution

• Commands functionality of the onorbit Human Research Facility (HRF) Rack in support of crew operations

• Is responsible for training Ground Support Personnel and crewmembers on HRF Rack operations

• Performs data management for data collected onorbit distributes data to webbased data repository for PI access and performs testing and verification activities.

• Serves as liaison to ROI hardware and software teams

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Biomedical Engineering or closely related field with at least 5 years experience

• Experience solving complex problems and working to develop solutions quickly

• Demonstrated technical competence in engineering and computing

• Effective communication (both written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Ability to perform in highly visible and stressful situations

• Must be reliable adaptable and capable of working in a team environment

• Must be able to work various overnight shifts and occasional holidays/weekends

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience at NASA

• Programming skills (Visual Basic .NET or C#

• Data networking knowledge (encryption network security wireless access points routers firewalls switches)

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.