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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER – SPACECRAFT COMMAND & DATA SYSTEMS - #0002436b
James Webb Space Telescope has launched Do you want to fly the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
Are you passionate about spaceflight? Can you break down complicated systems into basic electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software interactions? If you are a collaborative engineer excited to strengthen operations of NASA’s newest flagship mission, then you want to join our team of 40+ engineers flying the JWST. This position requires on-site responsibilities and candidates must be in our local market to be able to report on-site to work as needed. Relocation assistance is provided.
The current opening is for an electrical engineer on the Flight Systems Engineering team whose initial focus will be the payload Command & Data Handling system (ICDH). The ICDH is the science instrumentation nervous system ensuring accurate command routing and data transmission between the spacecraft bus and the payload systems including computers, software applications for each instrument, and 1553/SpaceWire buses.
The STScI Flight Operations Team is working in partnership with NASA Goddard, observatory contractor Northrop Grumman, and system vendors across the globe to create a premier JWST mission operations team. Our team conducts real time operations and spacecraft sustaining engineering. As a flight systems engineer, you will oversee all aspects of operations for systems under your supervision. You will lead the response during anomalies, and work with other experts to assess problems and advance solutions.