HLS Navigation Orbit Determination Engineer #ADV000AIG/II Position Available In Madison, Alabama

The Sr Aerospace Navigation Lead Engineer assists a team of navigation engineers across NASA centers that perform independent navigation analysis and simulation for the Human Lander System (HLS) program to assess and communicate risk to the HLS Chief Engineer and HLS commercial partners. This position will require demonstrated strong leadership and communications skills as well as strong technical background, including deep space navigation and orbit determination. The engineer will assist a navigation team that performs high fidelity analysis of the HLS navigation architecture to assess mission risk.

Help with the insight/oversight effort of the HLS GNC group (across NASA centers) with regards to all aspects of the navigation systemHelping efforts for the Modeling and simulation of landing performance analysis of HLS trajectoriesStewards trade studies to assess navigation performance under dispersed model parameters to assess uncertainty of unknown model parameters, and evaluates navigation marginsAssesses HLS commercial partner test data and partner sensors and models

Job Requirements:

A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics or related field is required. A degree from an ABET accredited university is preferred.(AII) Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D. with a minimum 19 years of experience; MS with at least 23 years of experience, or a BS with at least 25 years of experience.(AIG) Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D. with a minimum 4 years of experience; MS with at least 8 years of experience, or a BS with at least 10 years of experience.

To be successful in this position, the applicant must be detail oriented, work independently and collaboratively, possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, and will typically possess some of the following skills:

Orbit Determination and Deep Space Navigation (Free Flyer, ODTK, MONTE, GMAT, Linear Covariance, SIGMA)Kalman Filtering and sensor fusion.

Dynamically model descent systemsPython, Fortran, C++ , Matlab and Simulink programming experienceSupport the design, integration, and analysis of GNandC products.

Configure, conduct, and analyze 6-DOF Monte Carlo simulations.

Familiarity with Linux, Bash, and the use of computational clusters/serversThe candidate is

REQUIRED

to have the following skills and experiences:

Significant navigation experienceDeep space navigation including orbit determination(preferably ground tracking) or similar experience