<div dir="ltr"><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:400">The HAO is looking for an experienced Cubesat spacecraft and payload Engineer II/III. If interested, please apply through <a href="https://ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UCAR_Careers/job/Center-Green-1/Cubesat-Spacecraft-and-Payload-Systems-Engineer-II-III_REQ-2021-423-1">this link. </a></span>

<span style="font-weight:400">Location: Boulder (Hybrid in office/remote).</span><br style="font-weight:400"><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Type: Full time, exempt.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Position Term: Four-year term.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Application Deadline:  This position will be posted until Wednesday, February 2nd.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Relocation: No relocation assistance is available for this position.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Work Authorization: UCAR/NCAR will not sponsor a work visa to fill this position.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Salary:</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Level II Hiring Range         $69,881 - $87,352  </span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">              Full Salary Range $69,881 - $113,559</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Level III </span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">             Hiring Range         $86,816 -  $108,519  </span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">             Full Salary Range $86,816 -  $141,075</span>

</span></h2><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">What You Will Do:</span></h2><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">You will lead our team's systems engineering efforts for the WindCube program. It is a 4 year program with ~3 years baselined for payload development, spacecraft procurement and integration and verification activities) followed by ~12 months of on-orbit mission operations to measure thermospheric winds. Systems Engineering is a discipline that concentrates on the design and application of the whole (system) as distinct from the parts. It involves looking at a problem in its entirety, taking into account all the technical requirements, interfaces, trades, system modeling and cross-disciplinary variables and technical challenges. </span></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The ideal candidate will have domain expertise within one or more traditional engineering disciplines (e.g. aerospace, electrical, opto-mechanical or software) in addition to having specific experience relevant to developing space qualified hardware and within NASA Cubesat programs (e.g. NPR 7123.1, GFSC-STD-7000 (GEVS), <span class="gmail-WOM2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-all;display:inline;text-decoration:inherit">etc.)   </span></span></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">As a member of HAO’s Instrumentation Group, in addition to your main role, you will also support  systems engineering functions within other instrumental programs supporting research within the solar-terrestrial geospace environment.  These include existing efforts in developing space-qualified hardware,  the design of telescopes coronagraphs, spectro-polarimeters and even observatory scale design projects.  We are a small team of ~7 engineers who support an equivalent number of instrument scientists throughout the HAO so you will wear many hats in a dynamic and fast paced environment.</span></p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Responsibilities:</span> </p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer II</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Work in collaboration with scientists, engineers, project managers, customers, vendors, end users and other stakeholders to identify, develop, and translate science goals and requirements into system requirements and specifications </li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Work with scientists and other stakeholders to perform cost-benefit analysis between science goals and program cost</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Collaboratively synthesize top level system design concepts and architectures, perform trade studies and optimize the designs to meet goals and requirements and within budget</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform system level validation of instruments and verification to ensure instruments meet requirements</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform risk identification, characterization, and mitigation efforts.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform life cycle engineering studies and analysis</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Verify the integrity of analyses performed by other engineers</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Use advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to define and understand telescope and instrumental performance as well as analyzing uncertainties and risk</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Support efforts in technical requirements definition and tracking, system error budgets, and interface control documents (ICDs)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Support project management and other team members to ensure systems engineering tasks are completed in a timely manner</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer III</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Work independently with scientists, engineers, project managers, customers, vendors, end users and other stakeholders to identify, develop, and translate science goals and requirements into system requirements and specifications </li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Work independently with scientists and other stakeholders to perform cost-benefit analysis between science goals and program cost</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Independently synthesize top level system design concepts and architectures, perform trade studies and optimize the designs to meet goals and requirements and within budget</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform system level validation of instruments and verification to ensure instruments meet requirements</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform risk identification, characterization, and mitigation efforts.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Perform life cycle engineering studies and analysis</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Verify the integrity of analyses performed by other engineers</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Use advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to define and understand telescope and instrumental performance as well as analyzing uncertainties and risk</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Overall leadership of efforts in technical requirements definition and tracking, system error budgets, and interface control documents (ICDs)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Support project management and other team members to ensure systems engineering tasks are completed in a timely manner</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><u style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">ASSEMBLY, INTEGRATION AND TEST ENGINEERING</u></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Equivalent for both Engineer II and III</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Develop and document detailed test plans and procedures based on engineering specifications and requirements verification and validation compliance matrices</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Develop specific payload test plans tailored to GFSC-STD-7000 (GEVS) </li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Oversee and occasionally conduct testing efforts</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Write test reports to document instrument performance</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><u style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">OPTICAL DESIGN</u></p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer II</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Use Zemax while working with vendors to develop achievable and cost effective optical fabrication tolerances, and update models as needed to document as built configurations</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Lead efforts to procure and produce hardware via drawings, interfacing with purchasing and Contracts departments and interfacing with Design and Fabrication Services</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer III</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Use Zemax and FRED while working with vendors to develop achievable and cost effective optical fabrication tolerances, and update models as needed to document as built configurations</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Lead efforts to procure and produce hardware via drawings, interfacing with purchasing and Contracts departments and interfacing with Design and Fabrication Services</li></ul><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"></h2><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">What You Will Need:</span></h2><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Education And Years of Experience</p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">REQUIRED</p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer II</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Bachelor's degree in engineering or physics and at least three years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree in engineering or physics and at least one year of experience; or a Ph.D. degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Experience should be in cubesat engineering and developing space qualified hardware.</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer III</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Bachelor's degree in engineering or physics and at least six years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree in engineering or physics and at least four years of experience; or a Ph.D. degree and at least two years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Experience should be in leading cubesat engineering projects and in developing space qualified hardware.</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-WOM2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-all;display:inline;text-decoration:inherit">Knowledge/Skills/Abilities</span></span></p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">REQUIRED</p><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer II</p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Experience with CubeSat spacecraft bus specification and procurement</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Demonstrated systems engineering knowledge and experience with all of the following:<ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px 15px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Requirements generation and flow down</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Interface definition</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Ability to create top down and bottoms up error budgets</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">End to end performance modeling</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Trade studies bounded by cost constraints</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Quantitative risk analysis, configuration control, change control boards, acceptance testing</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Reliability, maintainability, life-cycle costs</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Statistical approaches to telescope performance modeling</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Contingency planning</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Developing Integration, Test and Verification plans</li></ul></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Broad optical-mechanical design background including some experience with spaceflight hardware</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Knowledge of instrument alignment methodology, and developing alignment fixturing & tooling</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Strong ability to articulate technical problems and formulate alternative solutions to engineering problems.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Extensive practical hands-on laboratory experience using and working with optical tools and systems</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Basic understanding of a wide range of current engineering technologies including one or more of the following: software, electrical and mechanical disciplines</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Demonstrated ability to work as an effective member of a team of scientists and engineers, and an advanced capability to conduct engineering instrumentation design working in an independent manner as necessary.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate effectively with PI’s, scientific staff and fellow engineers, and proven ability in writing scientific instrumentation proposals, and in successfully publishing engineering results</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">An ability to anticipate and define long-term impacts of design decisions, and the knowledge and skills to mitigate such impacts.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Knowledge of design and testing for complex new systems that integrate into larger systems.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Ability and willingness to travel for project deployments, as necessary.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Basic knowledge of optical design tools like Zemax.</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap">Engineer III</p><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">In addition to the Engineer II KSAs:</i></p><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Experience using tools like Zemax and FRED</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Knowledge of structural, thermal, optical performance analysis techniques</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Knowledge of system level optical design</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Experience with NPR 7123.1</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc">Extensive understanding of a wide range of current engineering technologies including one or more of the following: software, electrical and mechanical disciplines</li></ul><p dir="DEFAULT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:16.08px;color:rgb(74,74,74);text-align:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Applicant Notes:</span></h2><ul style="margin:12px 0px 0px;padding:0px 40px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(74,74,74);white-space:pre-wrap"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc"><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">A cover letter is required.</span> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:outside none disc"><p dir="LTR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">An Inclusion Statement (One-page)) is required for all applicants. This statement should address past efforts, as well as future vision and plans to advocate for and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the organization and/or field of work.</span> </span></p></li><li style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