GNC Internship: Spacecraft Trajectory & Controls

Varda; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 22,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Relocation assistance

Wellness reimbursement

Commute credit

Company events

EV charging

Job summary

Varda invites engineering students to join the Guidance, Navigation & Controls internship for Summer 2027 in the Los Angeles area, onsite in CA. You will contribute to end-to-end GNC performance for reentry vehicles, from 6DOF modeling to trajectory optimization.

You’ll work with aerospace professionals in a startup environment, growing technically while delivering impactful results for our growing space infrastructure programs.

Qualifications

• GNC internship experience preferred.
• Familiar with orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, trajectory design, and 6DOF simulations.
• Familiar with C++ or Python and modern software development principles.

Responsibilities

• Own or contribute to analysis, algorithms and simulations for reentry vehicles.
• Integrate and test GNC sensors, actuators and software in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Design tooling to support automated maneuver responsibility and scheduling decisions.
• Design autonomous satellite attitude control, collision avoidance, orbital rendezvous, burn planning and atmospheric re-entry algorithms.
• Perform trajectory design, optimization, and dispersion analysis for the reentry of a space capsule.

Skills

GNC internship

6DOF simulations

C++ or Python

Education

Aerospace Eng

Tools

GMAT

POST2

MATLAB/Simulink

Orbital sim

Job description

Varda invites engineering students to join the Guidance, Navigation & Controls internship for Summer 2027 in the Los Angeles area, onsite in CA. You will contribute to end-to-end GNC performance for reentry vehicles, from 6DOF modeling to trajectory optimization.

You’ll work with aerospace professionals in a startup environment, growing technically while delivering impactful results for our growing space infrastructure programs.