Moon Base Communications and Tracking Safety and Reliability Engineer

SAIC is a mission integrator serving defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets through technology, engineering, and professional services. The Safety and Reliability Engineer will support NASA’s Moon Base program by ensuring communications and tracking systems meet applicable safety, reliability, verification, and mission assurance requirements. The role includes reviewing safety documentation, assessing system risks and robustness, supporting anomaly resolution, and monitoring hardware performance.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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 a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance