GNC Engineer

Responsibilities

• Act as GNC contact for Business Development regarding proposals and mission definition
• Develop launch and mission operational concepts
• Design and analyze orbital and suborbital trajectories
• Collaborate with external stakeholders for mission-specific requirements engineering
• Document GNC solutions and participate in customer design reviews
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing for trajectories, GNC, and flight code
• Conduct Monte Carlo simulation analyses for mission operations
• Develop and support flight code for ground testing and mission operations
• Automate GNC modeling and analysis tasks through tool development

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• 2+ years of industry experience in GNC/ADCS (for Engineer II)
• 5+ years of industry experience in GNC/ADCS (for Senior Engineer I)
• Understanding of orbital mechanics and closed-loop control systems
• Experience with trajectory optimization
• Experience developing real-time control or estimation algorithms
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Experience with requirements assessments and interface control documents
• Proficiency with Git version control
• 3+ years of experience in modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
• 3+ years of experience with Python development
• 3+ years of experience with MATLAB or SciPy
• Experience developing in C/C++
• Experience with ASTOS or similar mission analysis tools

About the Company

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more.