Building Management Systems & Life Safety Engineer

Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States. Onsite engineering role with travel as needed.

Salary: $150,000–$170,000 per year

Company

Engineering role supporting building management and life-safety infrastructure at NASA Ames Research Center.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for the center-wide BMS architecture, DDC facility automation, fire alarm networks, and mass notification infrastructure.
• Develop a 5-to-10-year modernization and control migration roadmap, including cost-benefit analyses.
• Drive migration from proprietary controls to open-protocol frameworks and oversee fire alarm lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with federal energy conservation goals, IT/OT cybersecurity requirements, NFPA 72, and NFPA 101.
• Oversee testing, maintenance, certification, reliability, lifecycle planning, and quality assurance for control and life-safety systems.
• Provide technical direction and coordinate reviews, reports, equipment replacements, root-cause analyses, and project impacts with government staff, contractors, IT security, and field crews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a similar technical field with 5–10 years of experience; alternatively, 10+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale BMS and fire alarm networks.
• Working knowledge of NFPA 72, NFPA 101, and federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Current Niagara 4 certification.
• Demonstrated experience with integrated control networks and life-safety systems.
• Strong communication, presentation, organization, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to deadlines, changing schedules, competing priorities, and unpredictable events.

Nice to have

• Experience with modern open-protocol frameworks and IT/OT or IoT cybersecurity.
• NASA or federal experience.
• Experience with Federal and California facilities and infrastructure.
• Customer relationship management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with no security clearance required.
• Work involves collaboration with project managers, engineers, technical staff, contractors, government personnel, and IT security.
• Travel is required as needed.