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Physicist, AST, Electronics of Materials (Direct Hire)
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center · Posted 44 days ago
About the Role
In this role, you will support mission critical avionics by selecting, analyzing, qualifying, and troubleshooting Electrical, Electronic, and Electromagnetic (EEE) parts to meet NASA reliability, radiation, derating, and environmental requirements. You will provide detailed technical guidance, evaluate test and screening data, mitigate obsolescence and supply chain risks, and collaborate across programs to ensure compliant, robust, and flight ready hardware performance.
What You'll Do
- →Develop Electrical, Electronic, and Electromagnetic (EEE) part management and control plans, qualification plans, project specific screening requirements, and Non-Standard Part Approval Requests (NSPAR).
- →Evaluate EEE parts non-standard parts approval requests, waivers, deviations, and analyses.
- →Specify and perform screening/testing requirements.
- →Screen EEE parts types to assure a reliable supply of parts.
- →Evaluate EEE parts lists for compliance with requirements including project specific hardware criticality and environments (parts list to include as-designed and as-built parts lists).
- →Review military and industry EEE parts specifications, standards, and studies for application to NASA Projects and Programs.
- →Perform parts obsolescence analyses, recommend replacement parts, proactively manage obsolescence and End of Life challenges.
- →Troubleshoot parts failures.
- →Provide failure analysis and testing of EEE parts to determine failure mechanisms, probable causes and root causes.
- →Provide insight and evaluation on parts screening and parts failure analysis performed by outside sources
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
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