Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze launch vehicle and spacecraft trajectories, including ascent, orbit insertion, and orbital maneuvers
• Perform orbital propagation and station-keeping analysis for spacecraft operations
• Support mission design including launch window analysis, delta-V budgets, and contingency planning
• Interface with flight software and GNC teams to validate and optimize guidance profiles
• Contribute to development of in-house simulation tools and flight dynamics infrastructure
• Engage in multi-disciplinary vehicle systems investigations to motivate mission design, vehicle architecture, and analysis methodologies
• Develop and evaluate flight termination system mission rules

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Space Systems, or Software Engineering, or an equivalent Engineering or Applied Physics degree
• Experience with orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
• Mission analysis with STK, Astrogator, GMAT, Monte, Copernicus, or equivalent
• Python software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with launch vehicles, spacecraft, missiles, hypersonics, UAVs, or defense systems
• Orbit determination analysis with ODTK, Orekit, or equivalent
• Team and/or software project management experience

Benefits

• Equity in Cowboy Space Corp.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid time off and 10 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Relocation assistance
• Daily lunch and fully stocked kitchen

About the Company

Cowboy Space Corp. is building the infrastructure to power and connect the orbital economy. Our satellites operate in Low Earth Orbit to collect sunlight and enable a new class of capabilities, from powering on-orbit compute to transmitting energy via infrared lasers.