Systems Engineer – Laboratory Systems Engineering & Integration (XLab)

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States; full-time onsite. U.S. citizenship required.

Company

hirify.global supports NASA and commercial space exploration initiatives through engineering and technical services.

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering and integration for XLab capabilities, laboratory infrastructure, and customer test configurations.
• Coordinate integration of RF communications, avionics, flight and ground software, instrumentation, and test equipment.
• Develop and maintain requirements, interface definitions, integration plans, verification approaches, technical baselines, and change-control processes.
• Evaluate customer equipment, software, and interfaces for compatibility with laboratory infrastructure, safety, security, operational continuity, and other users.
• Identify dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and conflicts; support architecture development, capability planning, readiness assessments, troubleshooting, and resolution of integration challenges.
• Act as the primary technical interface for NASA, commercial, and external customers, balancing objectives, laboratory capabilities, resources, schedules, and technical baselines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 5–10 years of related experience; licensing or certification may be required. The position may be considered at multiple levels depending on experience, requirements, and business needs.
• Experience in systems engineering, systems integration, or technical engineering leadership within complex hardware/software environments.
• Working knowledge of RF communications, avionics, software integration, or related electrical/electronic systems, with sufficient breadth to evaluate cross-disciplinary interfaces and integration challenges.
• Experience developing or evaluating technical requirements, interface definitions, integration plans, verification approaches, and engineering trade studies.
• Ability to assess technical risks, evaluate competing requirements, and develop practical solutions within resource and schedule constraints.
• Experience coordinating technical activities across engineering disciplines, organizations, customers, or stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical issues, constraints, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound engineering judgment, and constructively challenge assumptions or proposed approaches.

Nice to have

• Experience with NASA, Department of Defense, aerospace, or commercial spaceflight programs.
• Experience integrating and testing RF communications, command and data handling, avionics, flight software, ground support equipment, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.
• Experience with laboratory operations, test facilities, integration laboratories, shared technical infrastructure, spacecraft, lunar surface systems, or complex system-of-systems environments.
• Familiarity with configuration management, technical baseline control, engineering change processes, integration readiness reviews, NASA systems engineering principles, technical review processes, and applicable engineering standards.
• Experience working with external customers, commercial partners, or geographically distributed engineering organizations.
• Experience conducting technical trade studies, resolving competing stakeholder priorities, or negotiating engineering solutions across organizational boundaries.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a dynamic, multi-customer laboratory environment supporting human space exploration and future lunar exploration architectures.
• Collaborate with laboratory personnel, NASA stakeholders, commercial partners, and customer engineering teams.
• Balance customer objectives with laboratory capabilities, operational constraints, technical risks, and long-term sustainability.