Requirements and Verification Systems Engineer (R0166000) (A)

*Aerodyne Industries is a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and information technology services firm headquartered on Florida’s exciting Space Coast. With locations throughout the US, we take pride in delivering small business agility with large corporation capabilities. Our list of clients count on us to prepare NASA’s Missions to the Moon and Mars and to defend our nation supporting the Missile Defense Agency and Department of Defense. Join the adventure of a lifetime by becoming a teammate with Aerodyne Industries and work on projects that will define our future.* The person in this position will provide Systems Engineering, Requirements management, Verification, and Validation (RV&V) coordination, and element/system level integration support to the MSFC Systems Design and Verification Branch (EV72) for support to the Space Launch System (SLS) elements. The successful candidate will coordinate and interface with multiple engineering disciplines, system elements, cross-program elements, and customers, as well as participate in reviews, meetings, working groups, task teams, and trade studies. The candidate will supply leadership and/or support for the development of key systems engineering products including requirements, specifications, support program/project milestones and subsequent activities where these products are assessed and matured. The successful candidate will work with the SLS elements customers/partners from inception to deployment to ensure stakeholder needs are satisfied. System engineering support to be provided by the candidate includes the following responsibilities: - Support development of SLS element requirements and verification products and ensure compliance with these requirements during development, testing and evaluation of SLS sub-elements. - Provide technical integration with other engineering disciplines, the SLS element, and cross-program elements, including risk-based insight/oversight through assessment of requirements and verification activities. - Support the SLS element Lead Systems Engineer (LSE) and Engineering Discipline Lead Engineers (EDLEs) to evaluate prime contractor deliverables, including assessments of element Detailed Verification Objectives and verification of allocated end item specification requirements. - Support for performing systems engineering tasks and assessments to support the SLS Program elements through reviews, meetings, working groups, trade studies and development of key systems engineering products to support program milestones. - Support for developing integrated schedules and other tracking mechanisms to manage the work and identify risks and opportunities. - Support for implementing Digital Engineering best practices, approaches, techniques, and tools. - Support for requirement V&V including V&V planning, execution, coordination, and integration for system level requirements to assure design compliance. - Communicate technical issues, risks, best practices and lessons-learned related to products, technical positions, requirement management, and V&V practices and develop integrated schedules and other tracking mechanisms to manage systems engineering tasks. - Identify, describe, and communicate potential risks related to the products, processes and interactions in the systems engineering processes and document them in the NASA Risk Management System. **Qualifications** A degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or a BS degree in a related technical discipline from an ABET accredited institution is required. Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a BS degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience in systems engineering and integration, launch vehicle definition, functional design, design integration, launch vehicle performance analyses, flight evaluation planning, requirement verification, and/or requirement validation. Must be a US Citizen and have a STAR ID. **Applicants must have the following required qualification…