MRI Technologies

Role Description 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. You will work 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. - Integrating models into NASA's Julia-based flight mechanics simulation or NASA Trick-based simulations written in C++. - Collaborating with parachute analysis experts to reconstruct drop test data or assess parachute system performance from spacecraft flights. - Running simulations on the High-Performance Computing (HPC) system to support landing touchdown condition analyses. - Writing requirements documentation. - Presenting verification and validation results to the team in a technical review. The work is analytically demanding, safety-critical, and directly tied to enabling safe crew recovery for every Orion and future commercial crew mission. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution. - Minimum of 2–5 years of experience in the field or a related area. - Experience with 6-DOF and multi-body flight mechanics simulations. - Experience with software development in any programming language. - Experience developing, verifying, and validating parachute or other flight mechanics simulation models. - Experience analyzing spacecraft performance. - Experience with source code management tools such as Git or GitLab. - Excellent oral and written communication skills. - Ability to work in a team environment consisting of NASA civil servants and contractor employees. - Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision. - Ability to prepare written documents and present findings at technical meetings and reviews. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office products. Requirements - A bachelor's degree from an ABET-accredited engineering school with five (5) years of related engineering experience, a master's degree with four (4) years of related experience, or a Ph.D. with zero (0) years of related experience. - Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on flight mechanics. - Proficiency in Julia, C++, and Linux. - Experience with software design for simulation frameworks. - Proven experience reconstructing parachute drop tests or spacecraft flight performance from telemetry data. - Experience executing simulations on High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. - Familiarity with NASA JSC organizations, processes, and procedures, including the Orion or Commercial Crew programs. - Experience participating in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, or anomaly investigations. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate across GN&C, structures, and parachute analysis disciplines. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, company paid life and disability insurance. - Paid time off and 401(k). - 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off, when applicable). - Strong career development opportunities working alongside NASA's human spaceflight teams.

Role Description MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer on the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC) at NASA. In this role, you will build and operate Azure cloud infrastructure from the ground up, establishing the landing zones, governance controls, identity integration, and compliance foundations that will carry NASA's mission workloads for years to come. You will work alongside cloud architects, security engineers, and NASA stakeholders, leading the Azure expansion of a production platform that already operates at enterprise scale on GCP. You are the subject-matter expert on Azure infrastructure design and federal compliance requirements, translating deep technical knowledge into a government-grade environment that meets NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, and NASA security standards. This is a build role, not a maintenance role. The platform is early-stage, and your decisions now will define how it operates across the life of the program. A typical day might include: - Reviewing Terraform changes for a new Azure subscription configuration - Coordinating with the security team on a Defender for Cloud alert - Designing a new landing zone architecture - Implementing Azure Policy assignments across management groups - Troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between the Azure environment and the existing GCP platform - Building CI/CD pipeline stages for infrastructure provisioning - Updating cost management tagging standards - Drafting runbook documentation for the operations team The work is hands-on, high-trust, and connected to infrastructure that supports NASA mission success. Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent - 6 or more years of relevant cloud engineering experience - Deep experience designing and operating Azure cloud environments at an enterprise or government scale - Terraform (HCL) for Azure infrastructure automation - Azure Active Directory / Entra ID administration and federated identity configuration - Azure Policy, Management Groups, and subscription governance - CI/CD pipeline experience (Azure DevOps, GitLab, or equivalent) - Experience with NIST 800-171 or CMMC 2.0 compliance requirements - Strong networking fundamentals: VNets, NSGs, ExpressRoute/VPN, DNS - Ability to excel in a remote work environment Requirements - Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent certification (preferred) - Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure + GCP integration) (preferred) - Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, or Azure Monitor experience (preferred) - Prior federal government or DoD cloud engineering experience (preferred) - Experience with CUI handling and controlled environment design (preferred) - Familiarity with CMMC 2.0 Level 2 self-assessment or C3PAO audit preparation (preferred) Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision - Company-paid life and disability insurance - Paid time off - 401(k) - Flexible work schedule - Strong career development opportunities working alongside NASA's mission teams Company Description Proof of U.S. Citizenship is a requirement for this position. Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation. MRI Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. As we are a Federal Contractor, most positions require the employee to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government background investigation. MRI also completes a pre-screening background check for anyone offered employment.

Role Description MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cybersecurity Compliance Specialist on the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC) supporting NASA's Mission Cloud (NMC) program. In this role, you will own the compliance posture for a production cloud platform delivering CUI/ITAR and FISMA Moderate classified workloads across GCP and Azure environments—systems that enable NASA mission operations every day. You will serve as the foremost authority on NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-171, and FedRAMP control requirements, working alongside cloud engineers, security personnel, and NASA ISSO stakeholders to translate compliance mandates into actionable engineering guidance. Your documentation, leadership, and technical rigor will shape the authorization and continuous monitoring of a platform that is actively expanding across new service boundaries and capability families. A typical day might include: - Reviewing updated control implementation evidence for an active ATO package. - Coordinating with the NASA ISSO on a compliance finding flagged during continuous monitoring. - Authoring new SSP sections for an expanding system boundary. - Translating a complex NIST control into step-by-step engineering guidance. - Presenting compliance status to program leadership. - Evaluating OSCAL-based tooling to automate evidence generation. - Assessing whether a proposed architecture change affects the authorization boundary. - Working with AI-assisted tools to accelerate documentation drafting. The work is substantive, high-stakes, and directly tied to the secure operation of infrastructure that NASA depends on. Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, or equivalent. - 6 or more years of relevant cybersecurity compliance experience. - Deep working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 and NIST SP 800-171 control frameworks. - Experience authoring and maintaining System Security Plans (SSPs), Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms), and Security Assessment Reports (SARs). - Familiarity with FedRAMP or FISMA authorization processes. - Experience working within a federal or NASA IT environment. - Strong technical writing and compliance documentation skills. - Ability to communicate complex compliance requirements clearly to engineering and leadership audiences. - Working familiarity with OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language) or willingness to develop OSCAL-based SSP and assessment workflows. - Comfort using AI-assisted tooling to accelerate compliance workflows such as control mapping, evidence summarization, and documentation drafting. - Ability to excel in a remote work environment. Requirements - Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security tooling such as Security Command Center and Chronicle. - Familiarity with ITAR-controlled systems or CUI handling requirements. - CISSP, CAP, Security+, or equivalent certification. - Experience with continuous monitoring automation tools. - Prior NASA or federal civilian agency ATO experience. - Hands-on experience with OSCAL tooling (e.g., NIST OSCAL CLI, Trestle, or similar) or machine-readable SSP generation. - Experience using AI tools to accelerate compliance documentation, gap analysis, or control implementation guidance. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and disability insurance. - Paid time off and 401(k). - Flexible work schedule. - Strong career development opportunities working alongside NASA's mission teams. Company Description Proof of U.S. Citizenship is a requirement for this position. Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation. MRI Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. As we are a Federal Contractor, most positions require the employee to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government background investigation. MRI also completes a pre-screening background check for anyone offered employment.

Role Description MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Security Engineer on the NASA Mission Cloud (NMC) team, supporting the Mission Enabling Services Contract (MESC). In this role, you will own the security tooling, harden the cloud infrastructure, and drive vulnerability remediation at scale across a production GCP platform running 12+ GKE clusters across ITAR, Moderate, and Low impact boundaries. You will work alongside cloud engineers, compliance specialists, and NASA stakeholders, building detection coverage, enforcing least-privilege access, and integrating security controls into the CI/CD pipelines that keep the platform moving. You should be comfortable writing code: whether it is Python automation for CVE triage, Go tooling for policy enforcement, or shell scripting for security checks in CI pipelines, this role expects you to build things, not just configure them. A typical day might include: - Triaging new CVEs identified across container images. - Reviewing overnight alerts from the security monitoring stack. - Writing Python automation to streamline a vulnerability remediation workflow. - Integrating a new security check into a GitLab CI/CD pipeline. - Conducting an IAM drift analysis across cloud resources. - Evaluating a new supply-chain security tool like Chainguard or Sigstore. - Investigating an anomaly flagged by the SIEM. The work is hands-on, engineering-first, and operating at a scale where your improvements have immediate, measurable impact on systems that carry NASA's mission workloads. Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent. - 4 or more years of relevant security engineering experience. - Experience with cloud security engineering on GCP or an equivalent cloud platform (AWS or Azure). - Hands-on experience with container security, Kubernetes hardening, and image vulnerability scanning. - Working knowledge of IAM principles and least-privilege enforcement at scale. - Experience with security monitoring, SIEM tools, and alert triage. - Familiarity with CVE management and vulnerability remediation workflows. - Comfortable working in Linux environments and with CLI-based tooling. - Working proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, JavaScript, or Rust) sufficient to build security tooling, automation scripts, and CI/CD integrations. - Ability to excel in a remote work environment. Requirements - Experience with Chainguard, Sigstore, or similar supply chain security tooling. - GCP Security Command Center, Chronicle, or Google Cloud Armor experience. - GitLab CI/CD pipeline security integration experience. - NIST SP 800-53 or FedRAMP control implementation experience. - Security+ or equivalent certification. - Prior NASA or federal government security engineering experience. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and disability insurance. - Paid time off and 401(k). - Flexible work schedule. - Strong career development opportunities working alongside NASA's mission teams.