Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship) Controls
Core
Developing guidance, navigation, and control systems for the Starship vehicle, a fully reusable spacecraft designed for human missions to Mars and beyond.
Role type
Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer
Builds
Flight control systems, 6-DOF dynamics simulation models, and mission-unique capabilities for launch vehicles
Domain
Commercial space industry, orbital mechanics, and aerospace engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, 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
Aerodynamics, sensors and actuators, launch vehicle and/or spacecraft system experience, complex problem solving with minimal supervision
Technologies
Python, C++
