Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for spacecraft attitude determination and control (ADCS), orbit determination, and maneuver planning
• Develop state estimation and sensor fusion (e.g., Kalman/nonlinear filters) fusing IMU, star tracker, sun sensor, GPS, and other sensor data
• Model spacecraft dynamics and orbital mechanics, and design controllers (e.g., PID, LQR, robust/adaptive) for pointing, station-keeping, and trajectory tracking
• Build high-fidelity simulation environments to validate GNC performance across nominal and off-nominal conditions
• Implement and test GNC algorithms in flight software, and support hardware-in-the-loop verification
• Run Monte Carlo analyses and closed-loop verification to characterize performance, stability, and margins
• Collaborate with software, systems, avionics, and operations engineers to integrate GNC into the full vehicle
• Support on-orbit operations, commissioning, and anomaly resolution for GNC subsystems

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
• Strong foundation in control theory, linear algebra, and dynamics
• Programming experience in Python and/or C/C++
• Experience with simulation and analysis tools such as MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent Python stacks
• Experience with version control systems such as Git

What We're Looking For