Flight Termination System Engineer at Input Technology Solutions
Wallops Island, VA
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Jul 27, 2026
Wallops Island, VA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An electrical engineering role embedded in the Range Safety Operations Division at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, focused on reviewing designs, testing, and certifying Flight Termination System (FTS) hardware and electronics for launch vehicles. The work centers on RF systems, command destruct receivers, high-reliability circuit design, and environmental testing to meet NASA, MIL-STD, and FAA safety requirements. Suited to an experienced aerospace or defense electronics engineer with a background in safety-critical systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Salisbury, MD-DE · Bachelor's required
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This role is fundamentally an Electrical/Aerospace Engineering position — not a computer or mathematical occupation. No SOC code in the permitted list cleanly fits; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the closest available option, but confidence is Low and the US-benchmark pool sizing will not be accurate for this occupation.
Security clearance is listed as conditional ('may be required depending on program'), so it is not treated as a hard gate.
The education requirement lists 'Bachelors or Masters'; Bachelors is captured as the minimum hard-required degree since a Masters is the higher option, not the floor.
The 5-year experience requirement is stated alongside the education requirement and is treated as the overall role-level minimum, not tied to any single named technology.
Wallops Flight Facility is located in Wallops Island, Virginia (Accomack County). The nearest CBSA is Salisbury, MD-DE (41540); note that Wallops Island itself falls outside any formally defined metropolitan statistical area.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): high-reliability circuit design, NASA range safety standards, redundancy design.
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