GNC Engineer

About the role

As a GNC Engineer at Reflect, you will enable us to predict the in-orbit performance of a novel space vehicle. Your work will span from vehicle-level dynamics modeling, to propagated orbital dynamics modeling, to controller design that we can implement on flight-ready avionics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own our 6-DOF simulation for understanding vehicle attitude, station-keeping, and orbital performance.
• Design and implement controllers on hardware going to space by actually writing software yourself.
• Use simulation to constrain and inform ADCS design.
• Work closely with avionics engineers to have performant, reliable attitude determination and control.
• Analyze orbits, constellation designs, trajectories and attitude motion profiles to maximize vehicle service performance.
• Contribute to high-level vehicle architecture decisions.
• Support prototyping, implement controllers on prototype hardware.
• Come up with creative solutions to novel problems that surround precisely putting a spot of reflected sunlight on the ground from space.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional GNC engineering experience, ideally on spacecraft or other dynamically controlled vehicles.
• Clear prior technical ownership of functioning vehicle controllers and sim (I designed and simulated the GNC for “xyz” vehicle).
• Experience bringing up sim environments from scratch, opinionated/familiar with best practices.
• Experience with implementing attitude control and/or estimation algorithms on spacecraft.
• Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing.

Benefits

• Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy.
• Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K.
• Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged.
• Healthy lunches provided daily.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD