Parachute Modeling Engineer

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Parachute Modeling Engineer on the JETS II contract at NASA Johnson Space Center. In this role, you will develop and maintain state-of-the-art multi-body parachute system models and integrate them into NASA's flight mechanics simulations in support of the Orion and Artemis Programs, working alongside NASA civil servants, the GN&C team, and parachute analysis subject matter experts to deliver high-fidelity simulation tools for crewed spacecraft recovery systems. This role has the potential to be fully remote for the right candidate, which is rare for this contract as it typically requires in person onsite work at Johnson Space Center.

A typical day involves developing and validating parachute deployment, inflation, and full-open flight models and integrating them into NASA's Julia-based flight mechanics simulation or NASA Trick-based simulations written in C++. In the morning you may be collaborating with p...