Senior technical anchor for controls developing autonomous directed-energy systems, shaping precision pointing and tracking architecture from theory to hardware testing.
Compensation
Base salary range: $250,000 to $315,000 annually.
Responsibilities
Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate operation, and stage handoffs.
Develop Kalman, interacting multiple model, and nonlinear filters that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into latency-compensated aimpoint estimates.
Build line-of-sight stabilization and jitter-rejection methods, including inertial stabilization, feedforward, and adaptive or notch filtering for structural modes.
Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision performance against dynamic targets in field tests.
Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures, using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
Own the success of a defence space mission from concept through to flight, managing requirements, interfaces, schedule, risk and readiness.
Locations (2)
El Segundo, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Compensation
$115,000 - $174,000 / year
Responsibilities
Own the mission end to end: requirements, interfaces, schedule, risk and readiness, through to on-orbit operations
Lead the definition of core mission requirements across the spacecraft bus and payload
Drive the early first-order analysis that proves out the mission's key requirements
Own the Interface Control Documents (ICDs) between the payload's operating modes and the host spacecraft's guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system
Work with government stakeholders and end users to define key evaluation and wargaming scenarios
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