Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship)
Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship)
SpaceX
SpaceX is seeking a Sr. GNC Engineer to develop and analyze flight control systems for the Starship spacecraft, aimed at enabling human life on Mars. The role involves working in a dynamic environment with a team of engineers to innovate and test advanced rocket technologies.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
- Experience with the software languages Python or C++
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
