GN&C 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!

- Develop and sustain control system algorithms for spacecraft operating sophisticated missions - Perform trade studies driving spacecraft maturity and mission design - Collaborate with propulsion, structures, fluids, and mechanisms to ensure system level design closure - Develop and maintain software for flight systems and simulation models - 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 requirement, configuration, and performance analyses - Support internal and external reviews with data products and reports

- B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering or Physics with 8+ years of experience or M.S. with 5+ years of experience - 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 - Demonstrated experience with control allocation to vehicle actuators. - 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.

- M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace, Mechatronic, Electrical Engineering or closely related technical subject area - 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 law schemes 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 - Deep knowledge of astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, attitude kinematics and dynamics - 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 - Experience with real-time flight software - Hands-on experience with GN&C flight hardware - Experience with performing system safety analyses including Functional Hazard Assessments; Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses; and Fault Tree Analysis - Experience with linear stability analysis in Matlab. - Experience coding in Rust

Base Pay Range for: CO applicants is $150,931.00 - $211,303.05 WA applicants is $164,652.00 - $230,512.80