(Senior) GNC Engineer - Navigation, Flight Software (m/f/d) Verified today
Your Mission
As a GNC Engineer at Isar Aerospace, you develop the guidance, navigation, and control systems that enable Spectrum to operate safely, accurately, and efficiently throughout its mission. You design, verify, and validate flight algorithms that determine the vehicle's position, velocity, and attitude while steering it along its optimal trajectory during all phases of flight. By combining flight dynamics, state estimation, control theory, and high-fidelity simulation, you ensure robust performance in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances.
Your Responsibilities
- Architect the next generation navigation system for an orbital launch vehicle
- Perform navigation algorithm tuning and improvements based on flight data
- Responsible for ground and flight integrity monitoring for safety critical navigation systems
- Own all GNSS applications on the vehicle
- Perform GNSS integrity studies
Required Qualifications
- BSc, MSc or PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or Robotics Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar
- Proficient in inertial navigation algorithms and Kalman filter techniques
- 3+ years of experience with GNSS receiver configurations and testing, including GNSS simulator test setups
- Strong understanding of integrity monitoring and jamming and spoofing resilience
- Experience with performing GNSS integrity studies and analysis
- Experience developing with MATLAB
- Experience developing with Python and C++
- Proficient with Git
- Maintain and drive a high standard of technical documentation
- Fluent in English
Bonus Skills
- Experience with RTK and PPK
- Strong understanding of discrete signal processing techniques
Benefits
- Employee Participation Program: share in success through virtual company share program
- 30 days of vacation
- Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution after probation
- Subsidised lunch
- Rental clothing with laundry service
- Sport club membership (EGYM Wellpass)
- Individual learning allowance after probation
- Childcare allowance
- Flexible mobility budget: choice of Deutschlandticket, JobRad bicycle, FINN JobAuto, or fuel allowance
About Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace is building modern space launch solutions to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space. We are a fast-growing, privately funded company providing sustainable and environmentally friendly launch services for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. Our mission is to democratise space and help improve life on Earth.