Senior Spacecraft GNC Engineer - Navigation & Attitude

K2 Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space in Los Angeles seeks a Senior GNC engineer to lead the spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control architecture. You will perform detailed trade studies and help evolve navigation for MEO/GEO, cis lunar, and interplanetary missions while integrating with the 6-DOF simulation.

You will own parts of the GNC flight software and ensure robust verification through HITL testing. You will contribute to mission design, test, and flight software, mentor other engineers, and push innovative GNC

Qualifications

• Experience with implementing estimation algorithms on for flight software and ground software, specifically Kalman Filters, Extended Kalman Filters, and Unscented Kalman Filters
• Experience performing Monte Carlo based analyses and covariance analysis
• Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing.
• Experience with GNC sensor sizing, selection, and system design
• Experience with Python, Julia, C/C++, Rust, or Matlab for algorithm development, implementation, and simulation

Responsibilities

• Work with other engineering leads to develop and validate a novel high level vehicle architecture
• Develop novel algorithms for precise navigation in LEO, MEO, GEO, cis lunar, and interplanetary space.
• Develop simulation and modeling tools to support vehicle and GNC trade studies. This includes mission design, controls analysis, and 6-DOF simulation development.
• Contribute to building the GNC organization by recruiting, hiring, and mentoring other engineers

Skills

Kalman Filters

Monte Carlo analyses

GNC verification

Sensor sizing

Python

Julia

C/C++

Rust

MATLAB

Tools

6-DOF simulation

Job description

K2 Space in Los Angeles seeks a Senior GNC engineer to lead the spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control architecture. You will perform detailed trade studies and help evolve navigation for MEO/GEO, cis lunar, and interplanetary missions while integrating with the 6-DOF simulation.

You will own parts of the GNC flight software and ensure robust verification through HITL testing. You will contribute to mission design, test, and flight software, mentor other engineers, and push innovative GNC