Houston, TX, USA | Full Time

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have an exciting opportunity for a System Manager Lead for Avionics Projects to join the team with Nexus, a teammate company.

The System Manager Lead for Avionics Projects will:

• Serve as the System Manager and Subject Matter Expert for two Avionic Projects in the Avionic System Division at NASA Johnson Space Center working with NASA's Commercial Partnerships

• Perform Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) activities including requirements, interfaces, verifications, and integrated performance throughout project lifecycle across internal and external organizations

• Assess and document design compliance of NASA agency project requirements to commercial providers

• Maintain and update requirements including Verification Requirements and Interface Requirements Documents

• Track and maintain requirement documents on task schedule

• Track and report financial data for the project to the customer in presentations and document tracking systems

• Support the verification activities including verification objectives and procedures, end to end testing development and reviewing Verification Completion Notices

• Develop and support sub-project requirement and verification data packages to support architecture requirements, design, verification/validation, operations, and sustaining engineering tasks

• Conduct product life cycle reviews, coordinate integration, verification, and validation activities

• Review verification and validation reports to verify compliance with project requirements

• Participate and contribute to System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Mission Concept Reviews (MCR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR)

• Perform and review system level architecture trade studies and analyses that will influence the overall electrical design and performance

• Perform other duties as required

• Must have good communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team environment

Requisition Qualifications: This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in engineering and a minimum of 2-5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

• Knowledge and understanding of SE&I processes, methodologies, tools, and technologies including model-based systems engineering

• Knowledge of test principles, tools, and processes needed to develop test requirements

• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures in the space hardware field, such as mechanical and electrical system design, engineering drawings and sketches, and material selection.

• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at various meetings

• Able to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision

• Experience working in a team environment