Senior GNC Engineer - Starship Guidance & Flight Control

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. GNC Engineer for Starship to advance flight control systems for our next-generation vehicle. You will work with a team of engineers to analyze, test, and validate subsystems ensuring high-reliability performance for launch and mission operations.

The role emphasizes developing GNC algorithms, conducting trajectory analyses, and building 6-DOF dynamics models for system validation in a fast-paced environment focused on space exploration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience.
• Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation.
• Experience with Python or C++.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative guidance, navigation, and control systems for Starship
• Engage in multi-disciplinary vehicle systems investigations and design work that define the systems architecture
• Implement new software or algorithms to enable mission-unique capabilities and leading-edge launch vehicle performance
• Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation
• Analyze launch vehicle trajectories, performance dispersions, and flight stability
• Conduct post-flight data review and correlation with analyses for continued improvement of predictions
• Support launch and mission operations of vehicles that you enabled
• Perform testing of GNC software utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, and algorithm unit testing

Skills

Control systems

Orbital mechanics

Classical dynamics

Modeling

Simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. GNC Engineer for Starship to advance flight control systems for our next-generation vehicle. You will work with a team of engineers to analyze, test, and validate subsystems ensuring high-reliability performance for launch and mission operations.

The role emphasizes developing GNC algorithms, conducting trajectory analyses, and building 6-DOF dynamics models for system validation in a fast-paced environment focused on space exploration.