Principal Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture and Investigation
• Evaluate and select appropriate techniques to achieve mission such as machine learning methods, physics-informed solutions, stochastic methods, Kalman Filters, etc.
• Affiliate with proposal capture efforts with feasibility analysis and engage with private/public partners, Department of Defense, Other Government Agencies, and other commercial partnerships.
• Architecture Design
• Develop architecture, lead trade studies and lead GNC team from conceptualization to flight for RPOD missions
• Develop algorithms, simulations, and tools for orbit determination, state estimation, uncertainty propagation to support SDA efforts
• Analyze and source datasets for training and validation or algorithm performance
• Build and test modeling and simulation tools for orbital/cislunar dynamics, sensor modeling, and visualization
• Six degree of freedom modeling, simulation and validation of space craft dynamics, sensors and algorithms, including for RPOD missions
• Implementation
• Collaborate with the software and GNC teams to implement algorithm in flight software
• Heavily support hardware-in-the-loop testing for integrated system validation
• Design concepts of operations (CONOPS) that balance thermal, power, momentum and communications for spacecraft missions
• Provide mission operations training and support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical engineering discipline
• 5+ years of experience working in guidance, navigation, and control
• Software development experience in Python
• Experience developing, debugging, and deploying GNC sensors, effectors and algorithms that have been used in real world applications/projects
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
• Proven ability to lead a project from conception to completion

Desired Experience

• Experience with cradle-to-grave spacecraft design, testing, verification/validation and in-orbit mission operations
• Expertise in either guidance, navigation or control
• Experience with multi-body astrodynamics
• Experience with Git, Linux and Basilisk
• Software development experience in C/C++
• Capable of identifying and solving complex problems with little to no supervision or direction
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed