GN&C Guidance and Flight Controls Engineer - Lunar Permanence

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact the safe human exploration of the solar system. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

- Derive spacecraft guidance designs from mission level trajectory designs - Coordinate performance requirements between GN&C and mission planning - Develop and maintain both established and bespoke guidance algorithms for orbital maneuvers in various Earth and cis-lunar orbits, including rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD) maneuvers - Develop and sustain flight control algorithms for spacecraft operating complex missions - Perform trade studies for efficient and robust maneuver targeting sequences, including nominal and contingency maneuvers during RPOD - Perform trade studies driving maturity of detailed spacecraft and mission design - Collaborate with communication, propulsion, structures, fluids, and mechanisms subsystems to ensure system level design closure - Develop and maintain software for flight systems and simulations - Integrate and test software in SIL and HIL environments - Implement controls algorithms and subsystem component models in an integrated 6-DOF simulation environment using Rust, C/C++, and Python - Develop toolsets for automated requirements, configuration, and performance analyses - Support internal and external reviews with data products and reports

- B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering or Physics with 12+ years of experience or M.S. with 10+ years of experience - Deep knowledge of astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, attitude kinematics and dynamics - Demonstrated subject matter expertise in spacecraft guidance, including maneuver planning, targeting, and optimization - Established background in GN&C algorithm development specifically for flight and attitude control using classical and modern control methods - Knowledgeable in frequency domain analysis techniques - Robust understanding of controller stability derivatives and stability margins with respect to spacecraft dynamics, flexible body dynamics, and slosh dynamics - Demonstrated experience with control law design for aerospace vehicles - Familiarity with development of requirements, interfaces, trades and analyses for aerospace GN&C applications - Understand the relationship between attitude control, vehicle configuration, spacecraft dynamics, actuators, sensors, and automation - Hands-on development with C/C++ - Experience with collaboration tools such as Gitlab, Confluence, and JIRA - Strong grasp of software and data configuration management techniques and tools - Highly organized teammate with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills - Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and give to a culture of safety.

- Ph.D. focused on spacecraft guidance, trajectory optimization, or dynamics and controls - Proven experience in development, implementation and testing of GN&C systems for aerospace vehicles - Proven technical experience through the full lifecycle of system development - Proficiency in various control methods such as PID, Phase-Plane, H-Infinity, Lead and Lag Compensators, Dynamic Inversion, etc. - Experience designing flight control systems with reaction control systems (RCS), thrust vector control (TVC), or electric propulsion - Experience with spacecraft control system design considerations for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations and Docking (RPOD) - Experience providing GN&C support during on-orbit mission operations - Experience synthesizing and evaluating Monte Carlo simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, and software-in-the-loop testing - Prior experience in software development following NASA NPR 7150.2D or FAA DO-178C standards - Experience with NASA software, simulation tools, and environments (Trick/JEOD/cFS) - Experience with validation and verification approaches such as software unit testing, system simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing or coordinated subsystem testing - Experience with full-lifecycle software development from requirements definition through deployment - Experience coding in Rust

Base Pay Range for: CO applicants is $181,626.00 - $254,275.35 WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55