GNC Engineer II: Mission Formulation & Flight Design

Rocket Lab Corp.; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym

Employee stock purchase program

Medical and dental benefits

Job summary

Rocket Lab is seeking a GNC Engineer II in Long Beach, CA to join the Mission Formulation Team and lead guidance, navigation, and control design for new launch campaigns. You will conduct trajectory analyses, work with customers on requirements, and help develop flight code for verification and operations.

You will also perform Monte Carlo studies, develop automation tools for GNC tasks, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of industry experience in GNC/ADCS.
• Understanding of orbital mechanics and/ or closed-loop control systems, preferably launch vehicles.
• Experience with trajectory optimization.
• Proven experience developing real-time control and/or estimation algorithms in autonomous vehicles, preferably launch vehicles.
• Active Secret security clearance OR Ability to obtain and maintain one

Responsibilities

• GNC contact to Business Development for proposals and mission definition.
• Launch and mission operational concept development.
• Orbital and suborbital trajectory design and analysis.
• Work with external stakeholders and customers for mission-specific requirements engineering.
• Document proposed GNC solutions and participate in design reviews with customers.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing to verify trajectories, GNC, and flight code performance.
• Conduct Monte Carlo simulation analyses to define and verify launch and mission operations.
• Develop and support release of flight code for pre-launch ground testing, launch, and mission operations.
• Develop tools and processes for automating common GNC modelling and analysis tasks.

Skills

GNC/ADCS

Trajectory optimization

Real-time control

Estimation algorithms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Git version control

Python development

MATLAB

SciPy

ASTOS

Job description

Rocket Lab is seeking a GNC Engineer II in Long Beach, CA to join the Mission Formulation Team and lead guidance, navigation, and control design for new launch campaigns. You will conduct trajectory analyses, work with customers on requirements, and help develop flight code for verification and operations.

You will also perform Monte Carlo studies, develop automation tools for GNC tasks, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure mission success.