Senior GNC Engineer Space

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier enhancing Space Domain Awareness Space Control and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. We're developing fully integrated hardware and software systems including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads to address growing threats in space and ensure our Guardians maintain a decisive advantage in this contested warfighting domain.

As a Sr. GNC (Guidance Navigation & Control) Engineer for our Space team you own the understanding and design of all satellite GNC subsystems to include but not limited to hardware sensors and actuators orbit mechanics navigation algorithms flight software implementation subsystem integration & test (I&T) and vehicle I&T. The GNC engineering team will work closely with related teams including Systems Flight Software Mission Operations and Ground Software. The Sr. GNC Engineer will lead algorithm design truth and physics modeling simulation and analysis for a wide variety of spacecraft and space missions to include but not limited to LEO MEO GEO Reentry and RPOD (Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Docking). The Sr. GNC Engineer will help lead successful implementation validation and GNC operations of Anduril’s fleet of spacecraft.
This role is directly tied to ongoing funded programs within Anduril’s Space Business Line. The programs require building and fielding a resilient software-defined spacecraft systems across numerous mission threads. We work with mission partners and customers to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the DOD and IC.

• Lead spacecraft GNC software and hardware subsystems for various spacecraft efforts in all orbital regimes and work closely with bus providers for successful implementation.
• Develop modern software-defined approaches to autonomous spacecraft operations with maneuvering capabilities to successfully accomplish mission objectives.
• Develop appropriate test plans and procedures to validate the GNC system during ground checkout on-orbit commissioning and operations.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan build and test complex functionality.
• Coordinate with end-users other operators and customers to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Support challenging schedules during ground testing launch windows and on-orbit operations of the spacecraft systems.
• Directly interact with customers to ensure mission success.
• Design of flight software algorithms and simulation products.
• Development of spacecraft autonomy tools for dynamic space operations
• Test process development and execution.
• Define automated fault detection and responses.
• Provide hardware-in-the-loop and monte-carlo simulation capabilities.

• Strong engineering background from industry or school ideally in areas/fields such as Astrodynamics Aerospace Engineering Dynamics and Controls Engineering Computer Science or other engineering degree.
• Experience with MATLAB Simulink Python C++ Go and/or Linux Systems. 
• Experience conducting spacecraft operations and satellite command and control with an emphasis on system reliability and uptime.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements.
• Experience with orbital mechanics and resident space object tracking capabilities.
• Experience developing 3-DOF simplified and 6-DOF high-fidelity dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation.
• Familiarity with rendezvous proximity operations and docking orbital mechanics with propulsive spacecraft spacecraft attitude determination and controls.
• Strong knowledge of spacecraft dynamics orbital mechanics and control theory.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

• A desire to work on critical software and hardware designs in the space domain.
• Experience testing propulsion subsystems in laboratory environments that mimic the space environmental constraints.
• Experience with testing/validation leveraging FlatSats Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds and digital spacecraft simulators through nominal and fault scenarios.
• Experience with computer vision and perception algorithms to support GNC operations.
• Exposure to US satellite operations policy and constraints for relevant mission threads in all orbits.

What We Do

Anduril is a defense products company. Unlike most defense companies we don’t wait for our customers to tell us what they need. We identify problems privately fund our R&D and sell finished products off the shelf. Ideas are turned into deployed capabilities in months not years.

Why Work With Us

Thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters.

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