GNC Engineer Verified today
What You'll Do
- Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight sensors, including magnetometers, sun sensors, inertial measurement devices, Earth sensors, and/or star trackers.
- Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight actuators, including magnetic torque elements, reaction wheels, and propulsion systems.
- Design, implement and maintain simulation models for GNC subcomponents in a 6-DOF simulation environment.
- Take technical ownership of current and future GNC avionics peripherals, supporting troubleshooting, design and updates to improve reliability and performance.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and systems engineers, to integrate avionics solutions into the larger platform.
- Develop component qualification and acceptance processes and be hands-on in laboratory and manufacturing environments.
Key Skills
- Experience with flight sensors for spacecraft attitude determination and estimation.
- Experience with actuators, including actuator sizing, modelling, design and integration.
- A solid foundation in spacecraft attitude dynamics and control algorithms, with emphasis on sensor ingestion and actuator command calculation.
- Experience working hands-on with hardware and familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
- Experience developing software using C or Python.
- Experience or familiarity with the Linux development environment.
- Experience working with external engineering contractors.
Preferred Skills
- Experience writing flight software.
- Experience designing and/or implementing Kalman filters and feedback control for attitude estimation.
- Experience with C or C++ development for embedded systems.
- Experience with spacecraft design.
- Experience with spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing.
- Experience with spacecraft operations and maintenance.
- Experience identifying and resolving system anomalies.
- Experience creating and maintaining integration and test campaigns for attitude determination and control systems, including hardware and software.