NASA Postdoctoral Program: Uncertainty Quantification and Verification Planning for Space Systems

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on uncertainty quantification and verification planning for space systems at JPL. The research aims to unify uncertainty quantification and system verification by implementing cutting-edge uncertainty quantification methods into systems engineering efforts. The goal is to incorporate uncertainty quantification to enable robust, probabilistic methods for ensuring performance relative to science goals, extending the traditional verification paradigm to flow through to science modeling with uncertainty. This research lies at the intersection of systems engineering, uncertainty quantification, reliability analysis, computational modeling, goal-based experimental design, and statistical analysis. The candidate will work collaboratively with a larger team of systems engineers, verification and test engineers, technicians, and subject matter experts at JPL's Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Analysis Group.