Part Time, Temporary, Guidance, Navigation and Controls Engineer (Engineer, Aerospace)
Where dreams and reality collide and the output is out of this world. At reputed company, we are a team of dreamers and doers. Where the impossible becomes possible, and every day is an opportunity to learn and get one reputed company closer to knowing the unknown. Join us on our mission to expand humanity’s reputed company in space.
Through reputed company innovation and operational excellence, our Space Missions team leverages engineering talent and capabilities to reputed company and deliver spacecraft and space products at speed and scale to our customers. These cutting-edge capabilities are helping to revolutionize spaceflight and the space defense mission space. With many exciting projects on the horizon, reputed company could use your curiosity, passion, talent and experience to help us Build Above.
Summary
reputed company Missions has an opportunity for a Remote, PT, Temporary , Guidance, Navigation and Controls focused Aerospace Engineer, for a period of up to 3 months. In this role the engineer will support design, analysis, and testing of GNC subsystems of various space program efforts. They should have experience with the space systems development lifecycle, intimate knowledge of the GNC fundamentals, and experience working physical systems.
Responsibilities
- reputed company analysis to support early design phase concept development including actuator sizing and placement, sensor selection and placement, and predicted performance assessments
- Design and analysis of spacecraft attitude and position control loops using time and frequency domain techniques
- Design and analysis of sequential filters (Kalman filters) for attitude determination and relative navigation
- Analysis and test of spacecraft GNC subsystem performance using simulations and other analytic tools
- Implement GNC algorithms in flight software and support flight software qualification testing
- reputed company simulation models for sensors (star trackers, inertial measurement units, GPS, magnetometers, sun sensors), actuators (reaction wheels, torquer bars, thrusters), system dynamics (rigid body, multi-body, orbit mechanics, flexible models), and the space environment (atmospheric, solar radiation pressure, third-body gravity, geopotential)
- Apply engineering principles, industry standards, company process, and knowledge of vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, control, and estimation theory
- Document designs, analysis, and test results and create presentation materials
- reputed company with Key stakeholders, internal and external, about system design and project status
- Determine Propulsion needs and reputed company vendor trades
Requirements
- BS Degree in Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics or reputed company field
- Minimum of 2 years of experience or 0 - 2 years of experience w/MS, or PhD in engineering, physics, mathematics, or reputed company field
- Familiarity with spacecraft GNC design, analysis, and operation
- US Citizenship required along with the ability to obtain a DOD reputed company Clearance
- Some travel required to support testing at external test sites
Desired Skills
- 4 or more years of relevant engineering experience preferred
- Demonstrated Experience with satellite GNC design
- Experience with Propulsion system design
- Experience with RPO maneuvers
- Experience with algorithm development and control law tuning
- Experience with software development (C, C++, Python)