Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship)

As a GNC Engineer, you will be responsible for pushing the technical boundaries of flight control systems for the world's most advanced rockets, including our next-generation Starship vehicle, a fully reusable spacecraft capable of carrying humans to Mars and beyond. You will work with a talented team of accomplished engineers to develop, analyze, and test vehicles and subsystems for highly reliable flight.

You should thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments where you adapt quickly and love to solve hard problems.

- Develop innovative guidance, navigation, and control systems for Starship

- Engage in multi-disciplinary vehicle systems investigations and design work that define the systems architecture

- Implement new software or algorithms to enable mission-unique capabilities and leading-edge launch vehicle performance

- Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation

- Analyze launch vehicle trajectories, performance dispersions, and flight stability

- Conduct post-flight data review and correlation with analyses for continued improvement of predictions

- Support launch and mission operations of vehicles that you enabled

- Perform testing of GNC software utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, and algorithm unit testing

- Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation

- Postgraduate degree in physics or an engineering discipline

- Demonstrated project or professional experience in launch vehicle and/or spacecraft system

- Capable of solving complex problems with little to no supervision on schedule as an individual or as a member of an integrated team

- Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight

- Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed