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Moon Base Communications and Tracking Safety and Reliability Engineer

Houston, TX, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 hour ago

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Technical Support
Mergers and Acquisitions
Management
Failure Analysis
Risk Assessment
Collaboration
Network
Test Plans
Regulatory Compliance
Root Cause Analysis
Corrective And Preventive Action
Computer Hardware
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Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace
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Summary

Job ID: 2617547

Location: Houston, TX, US

Date Posted: 2026-10-02

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Sys Safety Engr

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_REMOTE

Description

Qualifications:

This position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to support NASA's Moon Base program. As the Safety and Mission Assurance (SM&A) Communications and Tracking Safety and Reliability Engineer (MB), you will provide technical support for exploration systems, ensuring safety requirements are consistently applied, verified, and maintained across the MB program. You will be responsible for assuring the communications and tracking MB design, hazards, proposed operations, and verifications comply with all applicable Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) requirements. These functions are performed in direct support of NASA JSC MB Office.

Job Description:

Review and provide comments on Safety Data Packages (SDPs), hazard reports/analyses, integrated hazard reports, non-compliance reports and other safety data deliverables submitted to the Moon Base Safety Review Panel.
Provide technical expertise to SRR, PDRs, CDRs. TIMS and critical contingency EVA pre-failure analyses as specified for Moonbase programs/projects.
Provide SMA Communications and Tracking subsystem expertise by performing technical and requirements compliance assessments of development products and provide special risk assessment, as required.
Evaluate end-to-end link robustness across emerging MB communications architectures.
Ensure tracking and navigation systems meet safety-critical accuracy, redundancy, and fault-tolerance requirements.
Collaborate with system engineering, mission operations, and network providers to assess risks and verify mitigations.
Review test plans, verification reports, and requirements to ensure compliance with NASA safety, reliability, and standards.
Support anomaly resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective action development for communications and tracking failures.
Monitor Communications and Tracking hardware for signs of degraded performance or reliability concerns.
Review safety documentation including reliability predictions, hazard analyses, safety assessments, and verification matrices.

Qualifications

Required Education/Background:

Bachelor's in Mechanical, Aerospace, Safety Engineering, or related discipline
Basic knowledge and use of personal computers with typical business software
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are mandatory
Must be able to travel (minimal) and work shifts periodically

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10111346
Position Id: 2617547
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SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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