Senior Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer

Senior Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer

ClearSpace

Luxembourg

The Role

The successful candidate will be a key member of the Luxembourg Team and will help develop the GNC architecture for one of our missions.

Responsibilities

• Be the Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) Architect for the mission
• Define the GNC architecture for the mission;
• Define and manage the GNC Subsystem Requirements;
• Define the GNC simulator and the test specifications
• Manage the GNC engineering team of the mission
• Define risks and risk mitigation strategies for the GNC subsystem
• Contribute to the optimisation of the overall system by capturing the needs of other subsystems and proposing the adequate GNC-level solutions for the other disciplines
• Interface with the program management and technical team especially the System Architect and Robotic System Architect

Must Have

• Experience of GNC algorithm design e.g. navigation filters, guidance strategies and/or controllers.
• Experience designing fault-tolerant GNC systems e.g. fault-tolerant algorithm / software design.
• Knowledge and experience of GNC rendezvous and pose estimation sensors and methods.
• Experience of satellite trajectory design and analysis e.g. walking safety ellipses, passively safe trajectories, abort manoeuvres and collision avoidance manoeuvres.
• Experience of GNC hardware integration and test.
• Experience with software packages commonly used for aerospace simulations e.g. MATLAB/Simulink and Python.
• Experience of programming in C/C++.

Nice to have

• (BSc/MSc) Degree in aerospace engineering or another relevant engineering/science discipline
• Additional languages
• Google Adwords experience
• Strong analytical skills

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