Senior GNC Engineer — Space Autonomy & Mission Impact

Katalyst Space Technologies; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Option Plan

Relocation bonus

Discretionary bonuses

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring for an experienced GNC architect to lead the development of autonomy-focused logic for RPOD missions. You will work on architecture, simulations, and flight software integration in a fast-paced startup environment in Colorado.

Expect to lead a team from concept to flight, develop robust GNC sensors and algorithms, and collaborate across hardware and software domains while embracing ITAR compliance and demanding schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience working in guidance, navigation, and control.
• Software development experience in Python.
• Experience developing, debugging, and deploying GNC sensors, effectors and algorithms.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up atmosphere.
• Proven ability to lead a project from conception to completion.
• Experience with cradle-to-grave spacecraft design and in-orbit operations.
• Expertise in either guidance, navigation or control.
• Experience with multi-body astrodynamics and related tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect solutions for space mission objectives focusing on autonomy, hardware and software.
• Evaluate techniques including ML, physics-informed methods, stochastic approaches.
• Lead trade studies and guide GNC team from concept to flight.
• Design algorithms and simulations for orbit determination and state estimation.
• Build and test modeling tools for orbital dynamics and sensor modeling.
• Collaborate with software and GNC teams to implement algorithms in flight software.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing and system validation.

Skills

Python

C/C++

GNC

Machine learning

Kalman Filters

Git

Linux

Basilisk

Team leadership

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical engineering discipline

Tools

Basilisk

Git

Linux

Job description

Katalyst Space Technologies is hiring for an experienced GNC architect to lead the development of autonomy-focused logic for RPOD missions. You will work on architecture, simulations, and flight software integration in a fast-paced startup environment in Colorado.

Expect to lead a team from concept to flight, develop robust GNC sensors and algorithms, and collaborate across hardware and software domains while embracing ITAR compliance and demanding schedules.