Senior GNC Engineer Verified today
About the Role
Muon seeks a Senior Spacecraft Attitude Control System (ACS) / Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) hardware engineer. You will own attitude sensors and actuators from component sizing analysis through build-vs-buy decisions, integration, testing, and on-orbit support.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate GNC sensor and actuator trade space to meet power, cost, performance, and ConOps requirements
- Characterize GNC hardware performance and interactions with software, electrical, and thermal systems
- Build, validate and improve simulation models of GNC components
- Perform trade studies to inform sensor and actuator configuration on the spacecraft
- Define and execute test plans for design verification, qualification testing, and acceptance testing at component and integrated system level
- Manage vendor interactions with the Supply Chain team to ensure on-schedule delivery and expected performance
- Work with integration and hardware teams on system integration
- Monitor GNC hardware on-orbit performance and support anomaly resolution, including on-call rotations
- Support hardware-in-the-loop test planning, execution, and validation
- Stay current with industry state of the art
Qualifications
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or applied physics, or equivalent hands-on experience with GNC hardware
- Familiarity with common models of spacecraft attitude sensors and actuators
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Availability to work in San Jose location or remote
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with new challenges each week
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Passion for shipping real products quickly
- Commitment to keeping complexity as low as possible
- Hands-on experience building mechatronics projects
- Track record of writing readable code
Compensation
Salary range: $138,000 to $208,000 plus competitive equity grant. Final compensation based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
Full-time employees receive equity, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k retirement plan, short and long term disability and life insurance, three weeks paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
ITAR / Export Control
This position requires access to export controlled information. Applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), eligible to access export controlled information without authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.