GNC Engineer (Starship)
GNC Engineer (Starship)
SpaceX
SpaceX is seeking a GNC Engineer to develop and analyze flight control systems for the Starship vehicle, a reusable spacecraft designed for missions to the Moon and Mars. The role involves working in a dynamic environment to innovate and improve vehicle performance through advanced guidance, navigation, and control systems.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline
- Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
- Experience with the software languages Python or C++
- Postgraduate degree in physics or an engineering discipline (preferred)
- 2+ years of professional experience in control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, aerodynamics, sensors and actuators, modeling and simulation, and the software languages C++ and Python
- Demonstrated project or professional experience in launch vehicle and/or spacecraft system
Responsibility
- 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
