Aerospace Systems Engineer - Mission Assurance III

2w2 weeks ago

Firefly Aerospace

Cedar Park, US · Full-time · $145,000 – $185,000

About this role

Join the Firefly Systems Engineering Team as a Mission Assurance Engineer. Leverage your creative and technical expertise for launch vehicles, spacecraft, and landers over the product lifecycle from concept through fabrication, test, and flight. Establish high confidence in vehicle reliability with a right-sized approach minimizing manual overhead.

Work with design engineering, manufacturing, integration, test, and launch teams to ensure thoroughly tested, operationally efficient vehicles meeting system requirements. Speak knowledgeably about current system configuration, performance, changes, schedule, and risks. Translate program plans and engineering teams’ vision into mission success.

The Systems Engineering team is accountable for requirements, interfaces, and test planning. Validate system architectures, manage technical budgets and design configurations, develop test plans, and ensure verification of requirements. Support mission operations across government and commercial programs.

Be a self-starter who elevates teammates and is passionate about the space industry. Innovate processes to support increasing mission rates with minimal effort. Drive continuous improvement through high signal-to-noise ratio analyses and training.

Requirements

Creative and technical expertise in aerospace systems engineering
Proficiency in Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and FMECA
Experience with probability of failure analysis, deorbit analysis, and debris risk assessment
Knowledge of requirements traceability, verification, and as-built records management
Ability to perform root cause investigations for aerospace vehicles
Familiarity with systems engineering for launch vehicles, spacecraft, and landers
Skills in process automation and tool suite integration for engineering data
Comfortable traveling for off-site testing and launch integration activities

Responsibilities

Innovate Mission Assurance processes, creating structured flexibility for Class D Missions to Category 3 Vehicles with appropriate rigor
Eliminate non-value-added overhead across the organization and implement automation opportunities
Empower the Systems Engineering team to support increasing mission rate with same effort level
Own traceability between requirements, design data, qualification/acceptance test data, performance capabilities, and as-built records
Support Quality Assurance Team and Chief Engineering Office for critical audits and program milestones
Contribute to or lead Root Cause Investigations as appropriate
Set standard for actionable analyses including FHA, FTA, FMECA, probability of failure, deorbit, debris risk, and trajectory analyses
Create training and lectures for Systems Engineers and Subsystem Leads on mission assurance analyses and industry standard tailoring

Benefits

Develop small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles
Utilize carbon composite structures and patented propulsion technologies
Service missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond
Iterate quickly to improve reliability and deliver payloads at lower cost