Senior GN&C Engineer – Spacecraft & Flight Testing

Blue Origin; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 10%

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) Engineer in Colorado to directly contribute to the design, development, implementation and testing of the Blue Ring GN&C subsystem. You will own complex GN&C tasks and collaborate with systems engineers and software teams to enable safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Special mentions include relocation support, travel up to 10% and active or eligible clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of GN&C experience for satellite/spacecraft applications.
• B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering or related field.
• Direct experience synthesizing and prototyping new algorithms.
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink and Python.
• Experience with C/C++ software development.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex GN&C analysis, design and development tasks.
• Contribute to long-term GN&C performance improvement strategies.
• Support verification of GN&C requirements.
• Evaluate existing GN&C algorithms for improvements.
• Collaborate on software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing and flight-testing.
• Troubleshoot GN&C performance in 6DOF and HIL environments.

Skills

GN&C analysis

Python

Matlab/Simulink

C/C++

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Technical communication

Education

B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering

M.S./Ph.D in related field

Tools

Python

C/C++

Matlab/Simulink

SIL/HIL testing

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) Engineer in Colorado to directly contribute to the design, development, implementation and testing of the Blue Ring GN&C subsystem. You will own complex GN&C tasks and collaborate with systems engineers and software teams to enable safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Special mentions include relocation support, travel up to 10% and active or eligible clearance.