The Role
Develop and integrate multi-body parachute models for Orion, Commercial Crew, and future spacecraft programs. Build deployment, inflation, and flight simulations in Julia and C++ using NASA flight mechanics and Trick-based systems. Support parachute test reconstruction, spacecraft performance analysis, touchdown assessments, HPC simulations, and model verification and validation. Produce requirements documentation and recommend software and design process improvements while collaborating with NASA and contractor engineering teams.
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About Intuitive Machines:Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers. Our mission is to further science and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. With multiple NASA lunar missions in development and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting NASA, our customers, and the nation in paving the way to return humans to the surface of the Moon. Our world-class team includes experts in all aspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations, and safety.
About the Position:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Parachute Modeling Engineer to join the team at JSC, this position will work on NASA's Development and Analysis Team, which provides software development and analytic support for a variety of NASA and commercial programs, including Orion and the Artemis Program.This position is opened to remote work.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a state-of-the-art multi-body parachute system model, including parachute deployment, inflation, and full-open flight, for use on the Orion and Commercial Crew programs and future programs.
- Integrate the multi-body parachute system model into NASA's flight mechanics simulation (Julia) and NASA Trick-based simulations (C++).
- Collaborate with parachute analysis subject matter experts to plan and reconstruct parachute drop tests and reconstruct the parachute system performance from spacecraft flights.
- Assist the GN&C team in performing parachute system analyses, including assessments of the touchdown conditions.
- Assist the parachute analysis team with executing simulations on our High-Performance Computing (HPC) system.
- Perform verification and validation for flight mechanics models and simulations.
- Develop requirements documentation for flight mechanics models and simulations.
- Provide recommendations for improvements in design and software development processes.
- Perform other duties as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a minimum of 4- 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Experience with 6-DOF and multi-body flight mechanics simulations.
- Experience with software development (any language).
- Experience developing, verifying, and validating parachute simulation models.
- Experience analyzing spacecraft performance.
- Experience in product delivery utilizing source code management tools such as Git/GitLab.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and contractor employees.
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable successful performance in a collaborative engineering team.
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision.
- Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings.
Requisition Preferences:
- A bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited engineering school with five (5) years of related engineering experience, a master's degree from an accredited engineering school and four (4) years of related engineering experience, or a Ph.D. from an accredited engineering school and zero (0) years of related experience.
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on flight mechanics.
- Proficiency in Julia, C++, and Linux.
- Experience with software design.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering and 4–5 years of experience in the field or a related area
- Experience with six-degree-of-freedom and multi-body flight mechanics simulations
- Software development experience
- Experience developing, verifying, and validating parachute simulation models
- Experience analyzing spacecraft performance
- Experience using source code management tools such as Git or GitLab
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with NASA civil servants and contractor employees
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks with limited supervision
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited engineering school with five years of related experience, or a master's degree with four years of related experience, or a Ph.D. with no related experience
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering focused on flight mechanics
- Proficiency in Julia, C++, and Linux
- Experience with software design
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What We Do
Intuitive Machines' complete lunar program unlocks the lunar economy to explore the solar system further and gain knowledge for the progress of humanity. As the premier provider of space services and technologies, Intuitive Machines is reestablishing the United States' dominance on the ultimate high ground, the Moon. Designed by the greatest minds in spaceflight, IM's lunar program will send the first American spacecraft to the surface of the Moon since the Apollo program and send the first spacecraft ever to reach the lunar south pole.
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