Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) - Lead

Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) - Lead

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Job Description

• Must be in the space industry within space experience
• Ability to provide engineering expertise and leadership
• Providing mentorship and guidance to the technical team
• Being a technical contributor to challenging engineering problems & having key input into the spacecraft design, build, and test

• Candidates filling this position will have strong skills with computer hardware and software.
• Beneficial to have strong skills in advanced mathematics and computer programming.
• Responsible for leading the team and assisting with the work to:
• Develop hardware architecture
• Select flight computers, solar panels, and power system hardware
• Select/develop peripheral boards including support for 802.11ac, RS-422, Ethernet, CCSDS
• Work with software team on board support packages
• Ensure appropriate reliability and fault tolerance
• Trajectory analysis
• Guidance algorithms
• Control laws
• Kalman filters
• Sensor fusion
• Flight simulators
• Optimization
• Geodesy
• Orbital mechanics
• C, C, Python, MATLAB
• Navigation sensors (GPS, star trackers, LIDAR, IMU, etc.)
• Systems engineering
• Hands on test and integration

Qualifications

• Experience with spacecraft or launch vehicles and working on ambitious projects

Due to U.S. State Department restrictions on access to space technology, candidates must be "U.S. Persons" as defined by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) 22 CFR 120-130. In general, this means candidates shall be US Citizens (dual nationality is okay in most cases), Permanent Residents (current, valid green card) or other "protected" category.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. SPLICE and their clients are Equal Opportunity Employers and will not discriminate based on any factors. We don't discriminate nor work with clients who do.