Trajectory Engineer

About the role

In this role you will support programs by developing and refining trajectories used for characterizing vehicle performance. You will utilize your knowledge, skills, and experience with trajectories and engineering to support vehicle design, requirement compliance, Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) development, vehicle performance assessments, and flight test analysis. Your flight test support will include analyzing vehicle onboard instrumentation data and generating trajectory reconstruction. You will generate and analyze vehicle 6-DoF and 3-DoF trajectory data using industry standard (TAOS, POST2/POST3D) and in-house developed (MATLAB, Python) tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze tactical, ballistic, suborbital and orbital launch vehicle trajectories for rail launch and TVC guided systems.
• Dispersions and fault analysis capability/understanding required.
• Develop and analyze launch vehicle sizing and mass properties estimates to support both conceptual and detailed design.
• Multidisciplinary skillset as applied to launch vehicle performance & operations, in-space systems, propulsion, aerodynamics, technology assessments, value stream mapping, etc.
• Generate and analyze vehicle 6-DoF and 3-DoF trajectory data using industry standard (TAOS, POST2/POST3D) and in-house developed (MATLAB, Python) tools.

Qualifications

• 5 years related industry experience.
• Trajectory Analysis: Develop and analyze tactical, ballistic, suborbital and orbital launch vehicle trajectories for rail launch and TVC guided systems.
• Trajectory Simulations: 3DoF and 6DoF analysis with TAOS and/or POST2/POST3D
• Weights & Sizing: Develop and analyze launch vehicle sizing and mass properties estimates to support both conceptual and detailed design
• Systems Analysis: Multidisciplinary skillset as applied to launch vehicle performance & operations, in-space systems, propulsion, aerodynamics, technology assessments, value stream mapping, etc.
• Programming: Matlab and Python
• Communication: Effective communication across range of stakeholders.
• Testing: Experience with simulation, software testing, HWIL, sensor-based trajectory reconstruction etc.