GNC Engineer (Starship)
Core
Develop guidance, navigation, and control systems for the Starship vehicle to enable reliable flight and mission capabilities.
Role type
GNC Engineer (Guidance, Navigation, and Control)
Builds
Flight control systems, 6-DOF dynamics simulation models, launch vehicle trajectory analyses, and GNC software for reusable spacecraft.
Domain
Aerospace engineering, orbital mechanics, flight dynamics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling and simulation, Python, C++, 6-DOF dynamics simulation, trajectory analysis, flight stability analysis, post-flight data correlation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, algorithm unit testing
Preferred skills
Postgraduate degree in physics or engineering, launch vehicle or spacecraft system experience, complex problem solving with minimal supervision
Technologies
Python, C++
