Senior GNC Engineer Verified today
What You'll Do
- Technical ownership of current and future spacecraft attitude and orbit control software and hardware.
- Design, model, analyze, integrate and operate attitude determination/estimation systems for small spacecraft.
- Develop and utilize spacecraft dynamics and control simulations, including hardware-in-the-loop.
- Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight sensors, including magnetometers, sun sensors, inertial measurement devices, infrared sensors, and/or star trackers.
- Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight actuators, including magnetic torque elements, reaction wheels, and propulsion systems.
- Be hands-on in laboratory and manufacturing environments during testing, integration, and qualification of flight systems.
- Provide support and analysis for on-orbit operations of spacecraft attitude determination and control systems.
- Work with external contractors, manufacturers, and internal manufacturing staff to improve reliability, yield, performance, and cost of flight systems.
Key Skills
- Extensive experience with spacecraft attitude dynamics and control algorithms, with emphasis on practical application.
- Experience designing and/or implementing Kalman filters for attitude estimation.
- Experience with flight sensors for spacecraft attitude determination/estimation.
- Software development using C/Python.
- Familiarity with the Linux development environment.
- Experience working with external engineering contractors.
Preferred Skills
- Experience writing flight software.
- C or C++ development for embedded systems.
- Spacecraft design.
- Spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing.
- Spacecraft operations and maintenance.
- Identifying and resolving system anomalies.
- Creating and maintaining integration and test campaigns for attitude determination and control systems.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with a minimum of three days per week in the office in Glasgow.
Export Control
Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. Spire will arrange the necessary licenses; candidates do not need these before applying.