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Space Nuclear Propulsion Systems Engineer

Amentum · US-AL-Huntsville
Full-timeEducationSenior$128,000–$173,000/yr
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**Join Our Journey** At Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) your growth is our priority! That’s why we offer an array of exciting opportunities for your career development. From the transformative Team Lead Academy to education reimbursement, personalized mentoring, and engaging company-sponsored networking events, you have the power to shape your professional journey in a way that aligns with your aspirations. **Find Your Community** At the heart of our thriving business are the incredible people who make it all possible. We celebrate a vibrant array of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Here, we foster an environment where everyone—employees, clients, and partners alike—are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. **Prioritize Your Well-Being** Our extensive benefits package is designed with your health in mind. Enjoy wellness programs, paid holidays, generous time off, employee perks, and so much more. We’re here to help you achieve a harmonious balance in your life—both at work and at home. **Together, We Soar** Our dynamic team consists of 10 companies united in a single mission: to venture from Moon to Mars and beyond. Join us on this extraordinary adventure! **Position Description** The person in this position will provide Systems Engineering, Requirements management, Verification, and Validation (RV&V) coordination, and system level integration support to the MSFC Systems Design and Verification Branch (EV72) for support to the Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) Office. 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 SNP 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: - Lead and/or support development of SNP requirements and verification products and ensure compliance with these requirements during development, testing and evaluation of SNP components. - Provide technical integration with other engineering disciplines, the SNP Program, and cross-program elements, including risk-based insight/oversight through assessment of requirements and verification activities. - Support the SNP 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. - Perform systems engineering tasks and assessments to support the SNP Program through reviews, meetings, working groups, trade studies and development of key systems engineering products to support program milestones. - Develop integrated schedules and other tracking mechanisms to manage the work and identify risks and opportunities. - Implement Digital Engineering best practices, approaches, techniques, and tools. - Provide 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. **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…

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