Work Location: NASA Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Clearance: US Government

JOB DESCRIPTION - Data System Architect - Open Mission Systems

NASA is returning to the Moon, using public-private partnerships, to design and build robotic and human landing systems. We seek an experienced, hands on software architect to design and build a ground data system architecture for robotic lunar landers and rovers, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. This architecture will enable end-to-end command and data flow to display data in NASA’s Open Mission Control Technologies (Open MCT) software. The resulting open source system will be used across multiple missions in and out of NASA, both public and private.
 
Open MCT is a next-generation mission control framework for operation of spacecraft missions. It is developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in collaboration with theJet Propulsion Laboratory, and is being used by NASA for data analysis of spacecraft missions. Open MCT is an open source project with a community of users and developers both within and outside of NASA. This will be the data visualization tool. You will architect the end-to-end architecture. We are looking for a self-motivated software architect who is able to work with a multidisciplinary team of software developers, user interface designers and spacecraft design and operations teams. If you love space, that’s even better. This role is based at Ames Research Center, but may require occasional travel to support users at other NASA centers around the United States.

Education: Minimum of Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science or related field

Year(s) of Experience: 8+ years of related software development experience. 6+ years development experience with excellent understanding of the client-server relationship as it pertains to web development.
 

Qualifications, Skills and Traits:
 

• Demonstrated software development skills (should be able to show prior work or side projects)
• Experience with one or more server-side languages, such as Go, Python, Java, Node/Express.
• Experience developing high performance data storage and retrieval systems architecture. 
• Experience with git, mercurial, or similar version control systems.

Other Requirements
 

• Experience contributing to open source projects.
• Understanding of common space-based standards (CCSDS et all) and where they fit into ground system architecture.
• Experience with any of the following: Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch, postgres, MySQL, Redis, LevelDB, InfluxDB, Cassandra, any part of Amazon AWS,
• Experience with time-series data.
• Experience with .NET
• Experience with common behavior driven development including common testing frameworks and patterns.
• Experience administering and operating Linux servers (ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, etc)
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts, TCP/IP, etc.
• Experience in spacecraft mission operations, and the processes and software associated with it.

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