Software/Data Systems Architect presso NASA Ames Research Center

As part of NASA’s work to help transform the National Air Space (NAS) there is an ongoing need to accommodate new types of aircraft and missions seeking to use the NAS in non-traditional ways. These aircraft/missions include small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) performing infrastructure inspections and delivering goods, electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles (both piloted and autonomous) carrying passengers, and High Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) aircraft providing communications services loitering in the stratosphere. As part of the Extensible Traffic Management (xTM) project, NASA Ames is developing tools and technologies to conduct integrated airspace management research. These capabilities include the Federated Airspace Management Framework (Freddie) facility and the NAS Digital Twin (NDT). The xTM project is seeking a Software/Data Systems Architect to join our team. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Software Ops team and will work closely with front-end and back-end developers, researchers, and analysts to architect and implement complex software solutions across Freddie, NDT, Sherlock Data Warehouse, and other platforms.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher (or equivalent experience) in science or engineering
• Minimum 15 years of experience architecting and developing complex software solutions
• Demonstrated experience with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), and cloud-based (Amazon Redshift) database environments
• Experience using Git, GitHub, and Atlassian toolset
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience with software container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud-based software deployment, preferably via AWS
• Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well. Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and share knowledge with others.
• Proven interpersonal communication skills and ability to mentor and collaborate with other software engineers to commit, test, and review code in GitHub

Other desired skills:

• Experienced Program and/or Project Manager with working knowledge of NASA Procedural Requirement (NPR) 7120.8A strongly preferred
• Foundational knowledge of NPR 7150.2 strongly preferred
• Aviation/aeronautics domain experience strongly preferred
• Experience with Kinesis data pipelines
• Experience with Hidden Level airspace monitoring integration
• Experience with multi-system performance monitoring tools such as Zabbix
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum)

This video provides an overview of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) research capability at NASA Ames, which is the basis for xTM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vepo3q87Grc

EEOE for veterans and disabilities

Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Estimated salary $175,000-$190,000