Teams at Mars Science Laboratory

Leads the Mechanical Structures & Articulation group at JPL, managing approximately 10–15 engineers. Responsibilities include recruiting, mentoring, workforce planning, staffing, technical leadership, project scheduling, costing, quality, and delivery of flight hardware. The role provides end-to-end leadership for mechanical structures, mechanisms, robotic systems, and spacecraft payload development, while coordinating across projects, disciplines, customers, and institutional management.

Supports chemical spacecraft propulsion system design, analysis, assembly, integration, testing, verification, operations, and anomaly resolution. Performs fluid, pressure-drop, sizing, blowdown, and waterhammer analyses; develops and validates analytical models and tools; analyzes test data; supports vendors and hardware deliveries; and communicates technical results. The role requires aerospace or mechanical engineering expertise, propulsion testing experience, CAD/PDM proficiency, programming ability, and strong technical communication.

Develop algorithms and software for simulating aerospace, planetary, military, and terrestrial robotic vehicles. Configure simulations for multidisciplinary projects and implement capabilities supporting robotics and space-flight missions. Apply software engineering, machine vision, deep learning, state estimation, mapping, localization, motion estimation, and planning techniques. Collaborate across teams, communicate technical information, support product reviews, and contribute to embedded robotic applications.