23h ago

Senior GNC Engineer

Playa Vista, California, United States

$139k-$199k / year

full-timesenioraerospace

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll own a substantial aspect of Guidance, Navigation, and Control for our next-generation reentry vehicles. You'll develop novel algorithms for final landing stages, build simulations, and rapidly flight test to achieve precise landings. This is a unique opportunity to define vehicle architecture and solve new design challenges for the world's first reentry vehicle designed to turn space into a transportation layer for Earth.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Develop novel GNC algorithms for final landing stages
  • Build modeling and simulation for rapid iteration
  • Flight test algorithms to achieve required performance
  • Define vehicle architecture and solve new design challenges

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience developing and testing GNC algorithms and systems
  • Strong understanding of controls and estimation algorithms including Kalman filtering and sensor fusion
  • Proficiency in MATLAB, Python, or C++ for simulation and analysis

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering
  • Experience with guidance and trajectory planning algorithms
  • Experience building code deployed to real hardware in a compute-restricted environment

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive salary
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Flexible PTO
  • ๐Ÿฉบ Health insurance
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Equity

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Onsite Interviewยท 4 hours

๐Ÿšฉ Heads Up

  • Requires US citizenship due to ITAR regulations
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