Senior Space GNC Engineer: Attitude Control & Reentry

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 216,000; Full time

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Job summary

Varda Space Industries, based in El Segundo, is seeking a Senior Space Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer to own the full GNC lifecycle from design through flight testing. You will run system analyses, Monte Carlo studies, and contribute to an in-house aerospace simulation framework.

You will develop design descriptions, support hardware-in-the-loop testing, and drive architectural decisions for autonomous attitude control, collision avoidance, and re-entry guidance, working with

Qualifications

• B.S. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

GNC design

C++/Python

HIL testing

Monte Carlo

Orbital mechanics

Education

Bachelor's in aerospace engineering

Master's degree

PhD preferred

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

C++

GMAT

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Job description

Varda Space Industries, based in El Segundo, is seeking a Senior Space Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer to own the full GNC lifecycle from design through flight testing. You will run system analyses, Monte Carlo studies, and contribute to an in-house aerospace simulation framework.

You will develop design descriptions, support hardware-in-the-loop testing, and drive architectural decisions for autonomous attitude control, collision avoidance, and re-entry guidance, working with