GNC Engineer - Flight Software Development (C++) (m/f/d) Verified today
Mission Brief
Join the Flight Software team and define how a launch vehicle behaves throughout all phases of flight. This role sits at the intersection of Guidance, Navigation and Control, flight dynamics, mission analysis, simulation and flight software, turning engineering insight into robust C++ and Python implementations that are tested, verified and flown.
Your Role
- Develop, improve and verify GNC algorithms for launch vehicle applications.
- Contribute to guidance strategy, navigation solutions and vehicle control techniques.
- Support trajectory design, mission analysis and flight performance assessment.
- Develop and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments for design, development and verification.
- Model vehicle dynamics, environmental effects, sensors, actuators and subsystem interactions.
- Implement and integrate GNC algorithms within production flight software.
- Create analysis, testing and automation tools using C++, Python and MATLAB.
- Investigate anomalies and unexpected behaviour in simulation, testing and flight operations, driving issues to root cause.
Qualifications
- Background in GNC, flight dynamics, astrodynamics, aerospace engineering, robotics or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of dynamic systems and vehicle behaviour.
- Experience developing software in C++, Python or similar languages.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate complex engineering concepts into practical, testable implementations.
- Ability to work effectively across disciplinary boundaries with systems, avionics and flight software engineers.
- Engineering curiosity combined with technical rigour and attention to detail.
- Comfort moving between equations, simulation results, flight data, software and system-level behaviour.
Bonus Skills
- Launch vehicle, spacecraft, aircraft or autonomous vehicle experience.
- Guidance, navigation, estimation or control algorithm development.
- Validation using test or flight data.
- Linux development, version control, MATLAB/Simulink and practical software development.
Benefits
- Employee Participation Program: share in company success through virtual company share program.
- 30 days vacation per year.
- Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution after probation period.
- Subsidised daily lunches.
- Fully financed Deutschlandticket for public transport.
- Sponsored sports club memberships (EGYM Wellpass).
- Individual learning allowance after probation period.
- Childcare allowance for non-school-age children.