Senior GNC Engineer Verified today
About Inversion Space
Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space. Our mission is to make Earth radically more accessible by turning Low-Earth Orbit into an on-demand logistics domain. Spacecraft are designed to deliver payloads anywhere on Earth in under an hour, operating through extreme reentry conditions and landing with high precision.
The Role
As a Senior GNC Engineer, you will own a substantial aspect of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control that enables accurate and precise landing of our Arc spacecraft. You will have instrumental impact on the functionality and performance of next-generation reentry vehicles.
Your work will include:
- Developing novel algorithms for the final landing stages of flight
- Building modeling and simulation needed to rapidly iterate on those algorithms
- Flight testing algorithms to achieve required performance
- Defining vehicle architecture and solving new design challenges
- Working on all aspects of GNC that powers the world's first reentry vehicle designed as a transportation layer for Earth
You will report directly to the Director of Engineering, Accurate Landing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of applicable experience developing and testing GNC algorithms and systems
- Strong fundamental understanding of controls and estimation algorithms including Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, and state estimation
- Solid grasp of classical mechanics, dynamics, and rigid body motion
- Proficiency in programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, or C++ for simulation and analysis
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State per ITAR regulations
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with guidance and trajectory planning algorithms
- Experience with system identification and parameter estimation for complex dynamical systems
- Experience building code deployed to real hardware in a compute-restricted environment
- Practical experience developing GNC for airborne vehicles
- Hardware in the Loop (HITL) test experience
Location and Compensation
This position is on-site at Inversion HQ in Playa Vista, CA.
California annual base salary: $139,000 to $199,000. Pay is determined by role, level, location, market data, interviews, assessment, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, candidate abilities, and internal equity.