Senior GNC Engineer - Spacecraft Attitude & Orbit

OHO Group (Lithuania); Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OHO Group (Lithuania) is seeking a Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer in Los Angeles to own GNC development from initial design to flight software implementation and on-orbit operations.

You will build high-fidelity simulations, design state estimation and trajectory optimization, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable spacecraft control systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) within aerospace, spacecraft or autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of dynamics, control theory, state estimation and trajectory optimization.
• Experience developing and validating GNC algorithms for complex physical systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and validate guidance, navigation and control algorithms for spacecraft attitude and orbital control.
• Develop and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments to evaluate spacecraft dynamics, performance and system reliability.
• Design and implement state estimation, trajectory planning and control algorithms for complex spacecraft systems.
• Develop GNC algorithms for integration into flight software, supporting testing and validation against flight-representative hardware.

Skills

GNC engineering

Dynamics & control

State estimation

Trajectory optimization

Python

C++/Rust

Job description

OHO Group (Lithuania) is seeking a Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer in Los Angeles to own GNC development from initial design to flight software implementation and on-orbit operations.

You will build high-fidelity simulations, design state estimation and trajectory optimization, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable spacecraft control systems.