Aerospace Engineer - AST, Safety and Mission Assurance (Direct Hire)

Duties

• Oversees flight safety analysis and quantitative risk assessments. Performs event and fault tree assessments of flight vehicle failure modes.
• Performs modeling and simulation of explosions from in-air breakup and ground impacts due to potential flight vehicle failures, assessing resultant risks from debris, toxicant release, and overpressure.
• Ensures team knows flight hardware design and analytic methods. Ensures they have state-of-the-art tools to perform flight safety risk analysis. Tools include risk prediction software, trajectory mechanics codes, thermochemical codes, and more.
• Assesses flight vehicle performance characteristics, including aerodynamics, mass moments of inertia, center of gravity. Assess structural breakup limits and breakup dynamics, including resulting debris characteristics.
• Assesses, develop, and implement flight abort criteria to act as risk mitigations to ensure protection of personnel and property.
• Reviews trend analysis of anomalies with range safety implications. Applies lessons learned to better quantify risks and determine appropriate mitigations.
• Provides console support during launches and utilize expert range flight safety knowledge to help manage risks to people and critical assets. Supports mishap responses.