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General Engineer, AST - Engineering Program Management (Direct Hire)

Headquarters, NASAHuntsville, Alabama, Edwards AFB, California, Moffett Field, California, Washington, District of Columbia, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Greenbelt, Maryland, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, Cleveland, Ohio, Houston, Texas, Hampton, Virginiausajobspublished 09/24/2026
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As a Program Executive within the Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office (ESSIO), you will act as a senior integrator and technical leader responsible for ensuring the formulation, implementation, and execution of lunar science investigations and missions. You will manage end-to-end development of payloads on robotic and human systems, oversee requirements, acquisitions, schedules, risks, and performance across multiple groups within NASA and across multiple external stakeholders.

Major duties

  • Oversee end-to-end formulation, development, integration, and execution of lunar robotic and human mission science instruments, ensuring technical rigor, timely delivery, and alignment with science and mission requirements.
  • Review lunar science solicitations and provide technical advice to selecting officials for awards. Aid in formulation of studies for future lunar science missions. Provide engineering guidance and subject matter expertise to Artemis science teams.
  • Conduct comprehensive engineering reviews of exploration system plans, evaluating payload requirements, and ensures science objectives are fully integrated into exploration documents, governance boards, and formal review processes.
  • Evaluate allocations on human/robotic platforms to ensure feasible payload integration; supports instrument definition, interface development, and technical coordination; proposes engineering strategy science payloads within mission manifests.
  • Establish, and put into practice, lessons learned for all flight missions and payload developments. Document and develop efficiency strategies contributing to continuous improvement of office practices and policies.
  • Chair the Risk Management Board, directing identification and resolution of programmatic and technical risks to the overall exploration portfolio.
  • Drive collaboration, gap identification, needs assessments, resource alignment, and performance monitoring. Strengthen communication pathways across offices, Centers, Mission Directorates, resolving coordination gaps to ensure mission execution.
  • Represent ESSIO in Science Mission Directorate reviews and other Mission Directorate control boards and working groups, including Artemis and Moon Base forums, to ensure integrated, science-aligned decision-making across the exploration portfolio.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. NASA utilizes OPM-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Supporting space instrument, payload, spacecraft, and/or mission development through mission requirements, board reviews, mission assurance, technical planning, acquisition, and risk management across the mission lifecycle; Collaborating across organizations and stakeholder groups to develop shared strategies, communicate project status and risks, and support informed decision-making across concurrent projects; Developing engineering plans and strategies to translate space mission, payload/instrument, and/or research objectives into actionable approaches for integration and execution. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of artificial intelligent (AI) or AI-assisted tools during the application process.

Education

Basic Education Requirement: You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following: a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus; and that provided an in-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical applications of computer science, including digital computer system architecture and system software organization, the representation and transformation of information structures, and the theoretical models for such representations and transformations. 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. Applicants who do not fully meet the basic education requirement may still be considered if they possess exceptional relevant experience, or a combination of education and experience, that clearly demonstrates significant full performance-level achievement directly related to the duties of 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.