RPO Operations Engineer
Core
Provide expertise for flight-mechanics needs, specializing in on-orbit operational practices, processes, and procedures to support analysis, research, development, and operations for RPO missions.
Role type
Senior IC flight mechanics engineer (space operations)
Builds
Space systems supporting Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) objectives
Domain
Aerospace / Space Systems / Defense
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Spacecraft operations, on-orbit testing, anomaly resolution, state estimation, pose estimation, orbit determination, astrodynamics, trajectory simulation, algorithm design, C/C++/Python/Fortran/MATLAB
Preferred skills
Contested space trajectory applications, wargaming, parallel processing, computer vision, image processing
Technologies
C, C++, Python, Fortran, MATLAB
Responsibilities
Provide space operations support for US Space Force and Intelligence Community missions; Explore Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and incorporate operational constraints into space system design; Support evaluation of contested space mission applications to assess vulnerabilities; Build new tools to maintain internal tool base; Combine AI/ML/RL techniques with flight mechanics modeling; Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate mission requirements into technical solutions.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC