About the Company:

Our client company is a 15 year old Mojave, California based aerospace R&D company that is working to create reliable and reusable rocket vehicles and components for the purpose of enabling space transportation and reliable planetary landers for the Earth, Moon, Mars and more. 

Benefits include:

401(k) 

Strong health benefits

Potential equity component

PTO

Working on an incredible mission

This Position:

We are seeking a mission-driven Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer. As part of the this team, you will design, analyze, implement, and test the Guidance, Navigation, and Control algorithms. You will be responsible for system control architecture, flight stability and controls tuning, analyze linear and non-linear controls, GN&C software development and test, as well as, maintaining simulations.



In this role, you will be self-driven, come up with solutions to the problems you run into, and lead a team for the overall System Architecture, Design, Integration, and Testing to ensure the highest quality product.



This role:

• Work across this company's programs, with a focus on a moon mission  


• Coordinate with leadership team on staffing allocation and resources


• Technical contributor to challenging engineering problems


• Key decision maker into the moon mission technology design, build, and test


• Provide engineering expertise and leadership


• Provide mentorship and guidance to the technical team


• Develop hardware architecture 


• Select flight computers, solar panels, and power system hardware


• Select / develop peripheral boards including support for 802.11ac, RS-422, Ethernet, CCSDS 


• Work with software team on board support packages


• Ensure appropriate reliability and fault tolerance

Expertise:

• Trajectory analysis


• Guidance algorithms


• Control laws


• Kalman filters


• Sensor fusion


• Flight simulators


• Machine learning


• Optimization


• Geodesy


• Orbital mechanics

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with C, C++, Python, MATLAB


• Navigation sensors/controls (GPS, star trackers, LIDAR, IMU, etc.)


• Demonstrated competence with classical and modern controls design, analysis, and simulation approaches

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in systems, software, aerospace engineering or field related to GN&C responsibilities.


• OR Masters degree and 3+ years of experience


• OR PhD and 2+ years of experience

Requirements: