Senior GNC Engineer

🕒 July 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $100 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Red Canyon Engineering & Software

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51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

🏨 Hospitality

Defense • Consulting • Hospitality

Red Canyon Engineering & Software is a company that develops cutting-edge technology to help humankind explore space and other planets, as well as to advance renewable resources on Earth and rejuvenate low-income areas through the HUBZone program. The company is involved in important missions such as exploring Jupiter’s poles, the next Mars lander, asteroid sample return missions, and building human spacecraft for the Moon and Mars. Their clients include leading government agencies like NASA, NOAA, and DOD, along with top aerospace and technology companies such as SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell. Red Canyon attracts top engineers passionate about space exploration and technological advancements.

📋 Description

• Contributing to the development of customer U.S.'s satellite GNC systems. • Involved in the full lifecycle of development, from requirements definition through operations. • Design and implement GNC designs for new spacecraft designs to accommodate a variety of new mission payloads onto Airbus spacecraft platforms. • Analyze, design, and/or develop GNC systems to include: • Ensure the maximum reuse of the existing Airbus heritage products and if necessary, identify need for modification. • Ability to drive multiple design activities (programs or mission) – could lead to spacecraft, payload, satellite bus, and/or launch integration activities.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years' (w/ bachelor's degree) / 6+ years' (w/ Master's degree) experience in guidance, navigation and control system analysis, design and verification on spacecraft. • 5+ years' experience in guidance, navigation and control system analysis, design and verification on spacecraft. • Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink and STK. • Proficiency modeling, simulating, and analyzing the performance of spacecraft GNC sensors, actuators, dynamics and algorithms. • Familiarity and experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (SysML/UML) and processes that include requirements, architectures, interfaces and trade studies. • Familiarity with software development, verification, and validation. • Experience with object-oriented programming (C, C++) and scripting languages (TCL, Python). • US Citizenship is required