GNC Engineer
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Reflect-orbital · Hawthorne HqPrepare for this interview
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About the role
As a GNC Engineer, you will enable us to predict the in-orbit performance of a novel space vehicle. Your work will span from vehicle-level dynamics modeling, to propagated orbital dynamics modeling, to controller design that we can implement on flight-ready avionics. We're looking for someone who brings "full-stack" GNC development capability to the table.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own our 6-DOF simulation for understanding vehicle attitude, station-keeping, and orbital performance.
- Design and implement controllers on hardware going to space by actually writing software yourself
- Use simulation to constrain and inform ADCS design
- Work closely with avionics engineers to have performant, reliable attitude determination and control
- Analyze orbits, constellation designs, trajectories and attitude motion profiles to maximize vehicle service performance
- Contribute to high-level vehicle architecture decisions
- Support prototyping, implement controllers on prototype hardware
- Come up with creative solutions to novel problems that surround precisely putting a spot of reflected sunlight on the ground from space
- Ideal Qualifications
- 4-6 years of professional GNC engineering experience, ideally on spacecraft or other dynamically controlled vehicles
- Clear prior technical ownership of functioning vehicle controllers and sim (I designed and simulated the GNC for "xyz" vehicle)
- Experience bringing up sim environments from scratch, opinionated/familiar with best practices.
- Experience with implementing attitude control and/or estimation algorithms on spacecraft
- Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing.
- Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.
- We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.
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At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.
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