Senior Navigation & Guidance Engineer

🕒 April 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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K2 Space Corporation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Defense • Logistics • Manufacturing

K2 Space Corporation is a California-based aerospace manufacturer that designs and produces large, high-power satellite buses intended to deliver significantly more power, mass and payload volume at lower cost than traditional large satellites. The company emphasizes production-line style builds and commercial supply chains to shorten lead times and reduce per-unit cost, enabling multi-manifest launches and multi-orbit missions across LEO, MEO, GEO and cislunar space. K2 serves commercial, scientific and government/defense customers, and focuses on enabling missions that require high throughput, high-power payloads.

📋 Description

• Work with other engineering leads to develop and validate a novel high level vehicle architecture • Develop novel algorithms for precise pointing of very large, flexible structures in earth orbit and beyond • Develop novel slewing algorithms of very large, flexible structures in earth orbit and beyond • Develop simulation and modeling tools to support vehicle and GNC trade studies. This includes mission design, controls analysis, and 6-DOF simulation development. • Contribute to building the GNC organization by recruiting, hiring, and mentoring other engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with GNC actuator or sensor sizing, selection, and system design • Experience with implementing attitude control and/or estimation algorithms on spacecraft • Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing. • Experience with Python, Julia, C/C++, or Matlab for algorithm development, implementation, and simulation

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off • Medical/dental/vision coverage • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Many other perks