As a GNC Engineer, you will be a member of the team architecting the full simulation and flight control stack for the company's refuellable in-space transport vehicles and other space systems.

You will help drive the overall spacecraft system architecture, execute vehicle design and higher-level transportation system trade studies, and implement the spacecraft’s attitude determination, trajectory optimization, guidance, and control systems.

This will include development of high fidelity multi-degree of freedom simulation and test framework, supporting Monte Carlo analyses, and the development of the core GNC algorithms that fly our spacecraft.

Responsibilities:

• Drive mission performance for high-deltaV, refuellable transport spacecraft to make in-space transportation abundant and affordable.
• Drive rapid execution and iteration efforts that put our spacecraft in orbit quickly.
• Hands-on prototyping, troubleshooting, and testing of simulations, flight algorithms, and hardware in the loop testing.
• Develop simulation and modeling tools to support vehicle and GNC trade studies.
• Develop novel algorithms for low thrust trajectory optimization, RPOD, and spacecraft attitude control and orbit determination.
• Select and size actuators and sensors to support spacecraft attitude control.
• Negotiate requirements by having a deep understanding of the company and mission objectives and providing alternative solutions.
• Conduct design reviews, test readiness reviews, and flight readiness reviews with a heavy emphasis on technical excellence.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering or physics discipline.
• 3 years of experience designing complex control systems that operate in harsh environments (autonomous vehicles, drones, spacecraft, etc.).
• Capable of maintaining flexibility in direction under changing circumstances.
• Track record of delivering novel, excellent technical products.
• Demonstrated knowledge in designing, modeling, testing, and flying aerospace guidance, navigation, and control systems.
• Understanding of orbital mechanics, modeling and simulation, and software development and modeling skills, particularly in C/C /Python/MATLAB/Simulink.
• Proven system engineering and configuration management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering or physics.
• Experience with GMAT, AGI STK/Astrogator, FreeFlyer or similar trajectory design, analysis, and optimization tools.
• Demonstrated experience with clean sheet GNC, simulation, software development, and conceptual spacecraft design, actuator sizing, and attitude determination and control.
• Experience with spacecraft on-orbit operations.
• Experience with rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking.

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