Mission Design and Ground Navigation Engineer
Core
Designing and optimizing Earth-to-Moon trajectories and developing ground navigation analysis for Blue Moon landers.
Role type
Mission Design and Ground Navigation Engineer
Builds
Reference trajectories, ground navigation analysis, and flight dynamics operational software for lunar transport vehicles.
Domain
Aerospace engineering, lunar exploration, orbital mechanics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
trajectory analysis, flight dynamics, orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, ground-based navigation, statistical orbit determination, mission design lifecycle management, trajectory optimization, software development (Julia, Python, C++, Rust, MATLAB)
Preferred skills
Monte software package usage, spacecraft operations, DevOps processes, software development tooling (Jira, git, Jenkins, Docker)
Technologies
Monte, Copernicus, EMTG, STK/ODT, FreeFlyer, GMAT, Julia, Python, C++, Rust, MATLAB, Jira, git, Jenkins, Docker, Visual Studio, VSCode
Responsibilities
Optimizing Earth-to-Moon trajectories, analyzing dispersed trajectories and delta-v budgets, performing ground-based navigation and orbit determination analysis, conducting analyses and trades to validate mission requirements, presenting results at gated reviews, developing flight dynamics operational software, supporting flight operations during missions
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC