Job description

• Designing and deploying GNC/ADCS systems, developing high fidelity simulations, and supporting mission design and flight operations. • Building and leading highly technical teams. • Work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to conceptualize, design, analyze, implement, and verify ADCS across the full mission lifecycle • ADCS design team will collaborate with the Project Systems Engineer and other space craft subsystems during requirements definition, architecture trade studies, detailed design, integration and test, deployment, and on orbit operations. • Play a key role in GNC/ADCS for spacecraft and serve as a technical authority while still executing detailed analysis and development work. • Develop and refine spacecraft ADCS/GNC architectures, algorithms, and flight software and build, maintain and validate 3D3DOF/6DOF simulations to support design, verification, and mission analysis. • Perform spacecraft dynamics and control analysis, including performance assessments, sensitivity studies, and hardware/sensor trade offs. • Support mission design activities, including trajectory design, maneuver planning, and operational concept development. • Participate in integration, verification, and validation activities, including hardware in the loop simulations and flight readiness efforts. • Support test and flight operations: configuration of ADCS/GNC systems for flight, real time monitoring, anomaly investigation, etc. • Document designs, analyses, test plans, and results; present findings to cross functional engineering teams, management, and customers. • Collaborate with systems, propulsion, structures, avionics, and flight software teams to ensure robust end to end spacecraft performance. • Contribute to the development and analysis of future ADCS concepts, architectures, and enabling technologies. • Requires a Bachelors or a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering, Astronautical Engineering, Space Systems Engineering, and Electrical Engineering or related engineering degree field with experience in Attitude Determination and Control (ADCS) and/or Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC). • 6-10 years: Demonstrated technical expertise in simulation development and control/guidance design for spacecraft, including successful deployment to flight or on orbit operations. • 6-10 years: Experience implementing GNC/ADCS algorithms in flight software or hardware in the loop environments. • 6-10 years: Proficiency in: Python, C++, or Matlab for analysis and development. • A valid/clear driver's license is required. Considerations: Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.

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Must-haves

Designing and deploying GNC/ADCS systems, developing high fidelity simulations, and supporting mission design and flight operations.
Building and leading highly technical teams.
Work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to conceptualize, design, analyze, implement, and verify ADCS across the full mission lifecycle
Play a key role in GNC/ADCS for spacecraft and serve as a technical authority while still executing detailed analysis and development work.
Develop and refine spacecraft ADCS/GNC architectures, algorithms, and flight software and build, maintain and validate 3D3DOF/6DOF simulations to support design, verification, and mission analysis.
Perform spacecraft dynamics and control analysis, including performance assessments, sensitivity studies, and hardware/sensor trade offs.
Support mission design activities, including trajectory design, maneuver planning, and operational concept development.
Participate in integration, verification, and validation activities, including hardware in the loop simulations and flight readiness efforts.
Support test and flight operations: configuration of ADCS/GNC systems for flight, real time monitoring, anomaly investigation, etc.
Document designs, analyses, test plans, and results; present findings to cross functional engineering teams, management, and customers.
Collaborate with systems, propulsion, structures, avionics, and flight software teams to ensure robust end to end spacecraft performance.
Contribute to the development and analysis of future ADCS concepts, architectures, and enabling technologies.
6-10 years: Demonstrated technical expertise in simulation development and control/guidance design for spacecraft, including successful deployment to flight or on orbit operations.
6-10 years: Experience implementing GNC/ADCS algorithms in flight software or hardware in the loop environments.
6-10 years: Proficiency in: Python, C++, or Matlab for analysis and development.
A valid/clear driver's license is required.
Considerations: Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.

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Platform: swri
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