Federal Aviation Administration
Office of the Associate Administrator for
Commercial Space Transportation (AST)
Washington, DC
$29,559 - $101,742
The FAA's Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is actively recruiting aerospace engineers to support its safety responsibilities for commercial expendable and reusable launch vehicle operations; reentry vehicle operations; and launch site and reentry site operations.
Employees selected for these positions will:
- Work in a small, high performance organization responsible for public safety during ground and flight operations of launch vehicles;
- Assess the safety of a wide variety of leading edge technologies and systems including reusable launch vehicles and expendable launch vehicles;
- Perform hands-on-safety inspections and monitoring of commercial launch and launch site operations;
- Work with industry on rapidly expanding launch vehicle and launch site technology;
- Perform challenging and rewarding work on the development of public safety standards and requirements addressing new reusable and expendable launch vehicle concepts.
For specific information on these positions, visit AST's homepage at http://ast.faa.gov.
AST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
he Federal Aviation Administration is the government agency responsible for making sure that anything that flies through American skies does so with the highest attainable level of safety. It is responsible for making and enforcing air and space safety regulations for airlines, private aircraft and even space vehicles.
