Senior GNC Engineer - Spacecraft Attitude & Reentry

Varda Space Industries; El Segundo (CA); Sur place; USD 169 000 - 216 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Résumé du poste

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Senior GNC Engineer to own the full life cycle of GNC development—from design through flight testing and mission operations. You will run simulations, optimize trajectories, and validate algorithms within an in-house aerospace framework.

You will work on autonomous attitude control, rendezvous, and re-entry algorithms, collaborating with other spacecraft operators and agencies.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics, or related field.
• 5+ proven years of experience, or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge in designing, modeling, testing, and flying aerospace guidance, navigation, and control systems
• Highly adept software and model development skills, particularly in C++/Python
• Understanding of orbital mechanics, modeling and simulation, and software development
• Experience anchoring/fitting first principles models to test data or high-fidelity external simulations
• Proven system engineering and configuration management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsabilités

• ADCS hardware performance specification including sizing of reaction wheels, torque rods, IMU/GPS, and star trackers
• Design and implementation of 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
• Develop 6 degree of freedom vehicle simulation using C++, Python and MATLAB/Simulink
• Running Monte Carlo analysis to characterize performance of new vehicle and mission capabilities
• Integration and testing of GNC sensors, actuators, and software in hardware-in-the-loop environment
• Design and implementation of ground tooling necessary to facilitate fully automated maneuver responsibility and maneuver scheduling decisions
• Monitoring on-orbit system performance; troubleshooting where necessary
• Coordination with other spacecraft operators, 3rd party agencies, and the US government

Connaissances

C++/Python

GNC design

Monte Carlo analyses

System engineering

Vehicle simulation

Orbital mechanics

Communication

Formation

B.S. in aerospace/related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Outils

GMAT

POST2

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Description du poste

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Senior GNC Engineer to own the full life cycle of GNC development—from design through flight testing and mission operations. You will run simulations, optimize trajectories, and validate algorithms within an in-house aerospace framework.

You will work on autonomous attitude control, rendezvous, and re-entry algorithms, collaborating with other spacecraft operators and agencies.