- Dulles, Virginia, United States
- Senior
- $114K–$171K per year
Lead design, analysis, and testing of spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control subsystems for DoD, NASA, and commercial customers.
Compensation
Principal Engineer GNC: 114,000 - 171,000
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, and tune spacecraft attitude and position control loops using time and frequency domain techniques
- Design, analyze, and tune sequential filters (e.g. Kalman filters) for attitude determination and relative navigation
- Design, develop, test and verify flight algorithms for the GNC subsystem and support flight software qualification testing
- Analyze and test the spacecraft GNC subsystem performance using simulations and analytic tools
- Perform analysis to support early design phase concept development including actuator sizing and placement, sensor selection and placement, attitude and position guidance, rendezvous, proximity operations and docking analyses, and predicted performance assessments
Requirements
- Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering or related field
- Nice to have: Experience with NASA or DoD programs
- Nice to have: Experience with small satellite development