Principal GNC Engineer
$180,000–$280,000 year
On-siteBroomfield, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Architect solutions for space domain awareness and RPOD missions, focusing on autonomy from hardware and software perspectives. Evaluate techniques like machine learning, physics-informed solutions, and Kalman Filters to achieve mission objectives. Lead trade studies and guide the GNC team from conceptualization to flight, designing algorithms and simulations for orbit determination and state estimation. Build and test modeling tools for orbital dynamics, sensor modeling, and six degree of freedom validation. Collaborate on flight software implementation and support hardware-in-the-loop testing for integrated system validation. Design concepts of operations balancing thermal, power, momentum, and communications, while providing mission operations training. Assist in proposal capture efforts with feasibility analysis and engage with government and commercial partners.
Required 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
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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