Senior GNC Engineer: Mission Formulation & Trajectory

Rocket Lab

Littleton (CO)

On-site

USD 114,000 - 172,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Rocket Lab in Littleton, CO is hiring for a GNC Engineer II/Senior GNC Engineer I- Mission Formulation. You will design, model, analyze, and test GNC solutions forLaunch vehicles, integrating with GLS and other teams to deliver missions.

Responsibilities include concept development, trajectory design, requirements engineering with stakeholders, HITL testing, and flight-code release for launches and operations. Requires Strong GNC/ADCS experience and security clearance.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ 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.