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Aerospace Engineer, AST, Safety & Mission Assurance
Headquarters, NASA · Posted 11 days ago
Hybrid Huntsville, AL $148K – $197K Apply by Jul 6, 2026 Aerospace Engineering INTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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You will serve as the Deputy Planetary Protection Officer, leading NASA's Office of Planetary Protection, developing and maintaining policies, overseeing mission compliance, coordinating technical activities, advising leadership as the agency's expert, and fostering collaboration to advance planetary protection standards and technologies.
What You'll Do
- →Provide day-to-day leadership of the Office of Planetary Protection within NASA's Office of Safety and Mission Assurance; lead or support the development of planetary protection policy, technical standards, and protocols.
- →Maintain planetary protection policies and standards and oversight of their implementation by space flight missions; Ensure the coordination of mission oversight activities and reporting with relevant Technical Authority personnel.
- →Provide flight program and project oversight, technical assessments, and implementation reviews of NASA's planetary protection policies and guidelines by spaceflight missions of national or international significance.
- →Identify and propose solutions to management problems which are of major importance to planning program direction and compliance with international treaty obligations; evaluate the acceptability of planetary protection plans and reports.
- →Facilitate collaborative projects involving planetary protection personnel from multiple NASA centers and commercial spaceflight industries to advance biological cleanliness technology and share best practices for spacecraft assembly and launch.
- →Offer expert technical advice and serve as an authoritative source of information for decisions and guidance concerning the management of the total planetary protection program effort.
- →Publish and present on lessons learned and technical advances in the field of planetary protection; Keep pace with current scientific methods, emerging technologies and mission objectives in collaboration with NASA and external stakeholders.
- →Serve as an expert consultant providing technical engineering advice on planetary protection policies and practices regarding flight projects with NASA involvement and commercial space activities.
Requirements
- ✓If you did not complete a qualifying bachelor's degree, you may be eligible if you have obtained a graduate degree in an AST qualifying field, as listed above.
- ✓Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for this position.
- ✓Engineering degrees earned within the United States: Engineering degrees earned within the United States must be from a college or university that has at least one ABET accredited engineering program.
- ✓To find out if a school has at least one ABET accredited program, please visit http://www.abet.org.
- ✓Engineering degrees earned outside the United States: Engineering degrees earned outside the United States must be recognized by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), often known as accords.
- ✓These are non-governmental agreements among organizations that accredit academic degree programs.
- ✓MRAs recognize the substantial equivalence of mature accreditation systems and programs accredited by signatory organizations within their jurisdictions.
- ✓For a listing of Signatories, please visit, https://www.abet.org/global-presence/mutual-recognition-agreements/is-your-program-recognized/.
- ✓Science and other related degrees earned within the United States: Science and other related degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓Science and other related degrees earned outside the United States: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 31315374-0436-4e1a-b2d2-57da24b277a5
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