GNC Engineer III (Reentry)
About The Position
As a GNC Engineer at Inversion, you will have an instrumental impact on the functionality and performance of our next-generation reentry vehicles. You will own a substantial aspect of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control that will enable the dynamic and precise reentry of our Arc spacecraft into the atmosphere. Aspects of this work will include development of the 6-DOF Monte-Carlo testing framework for reentry vehicles, subsystem testing to mature physics models, flight software deployment and integrated system testing and flight test support. Your work will help shape a novel reentry vehicle and inform how we architect it's missions. You will be challenged with problems that you haven't faced before and you will need to rapidly iterate and test the solutions that you develop. You will be a key member of the Reentry team, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, Reentry.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Typically 5+ years of applicable experience developing and testing GNC algorithms or systems.
- Strong fundamental understanding of estimation and control algorithms.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, or C++ for simulation and analysis.
- Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
- This position is on-site at Inversion HQ in Playa Vista, CA.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with GNC actuator and sensor testing, model verification and validation through test data correlation.
- Hardware in the Loop (HITL) test experience.
- Experience deploying code to real hardware in a compute-restricted environment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
