Pyrotechnics Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!     

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 Pyrotechnics Engineer to join the team!

We are actively searching for qualified candidates for this potential opening; however, we do not have assurance at this time when the position will be finalized and opened. Because we have strong reason to believe the position will be approved soon, we are proceeding with identifying qualified candidates and conducting interviews.

The Pyrotechnics Engineer will:

• Apply extensive job practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts.
• Support requirements development, design reviews, test and verification plans and other technical reviews of NASA pyrotechnic systems.
• Perform oversight function and advise NASA employees and contractors responsible for development of pyro systems designs for NASA.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Support problem resolution and provide recommendations for resolving technical issues.
• Provide insight and advice on design efficiency.
• Maintain a professional relationship with the NASA customer and other NASA support contractors.
• Perform other duties as required.