# Guidance, Navigation & Controls Engineer (mid-level or lead)

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,000 - $183,000 (Level 3), $135,150 - $198,750 (Level 4)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is seeking a Guidance, Navigation & Controls Engineer (mid-level or lead). As a Lead/Senior GNC Engineer, you will be the Responsible Engineering Authority (REA) for delivery of the GNC subsystem. You will be a technical leader, decomposing complex work, interfacing across engineering and manufacturing teams, reporting up the program/functional management chains, and providing guidance and mentorship to others on the team.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver the GNC subsystem (hardware, software, and analysis) for a satellite program

- Perform GNC subsystem design, analysis, software development, and component selection to meet program requirements

- Manage the development of GNC products within the constraints of program cost and schedule

- Report technical execution progress to program and company leadership, and track/mitigate risk

- Interface with other satellite subsystems as well as systems engineering and program management to ensure system-level performance

- Technical leadership of a team of GNC engineers in support of a program, including decomposition and delegation of tasks

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree and 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- 3+ years' experience with GNC fundamentals

- 1+ years' of spacecraft system level experience

- 1+ years' experience collaborating with other engineering subsystems and program leadership

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

- Level 4: Bachelor's degree and 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- Satellite I&T and on-orbit operations experience

- Demonstrated experience decomposing large/complex nebulous tasks into clearly defined subsets of work that can be done personally or delegated to other members of the team

- Ability to perform complex GNC system analyses of kinematics, dynamics, and control systems using existing and/or self-developed tools

- Strong fundamentals of project management, including monitoring cost and schedule performance

- Ability to set direction of program work and create processes and standards to support the group

- Advanced understanding of classical and modern control theory, system-level trade studies, architecture development, and systems integration & analysis

- Experience as a mentor

- Active TS/SCI clearance

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work

## Skills

### Required
- GNC fundamentals
- spacecraft system level experience
- collaboration with engineering subsystems and program leadership
- U.S. Security Clearance

### Nice to have
- Satellite I&T and on-orbit operations experience
- complex GNC system analyses
- project management
- advanced control theory
- systems integration & analysis
- mentorship
- TS/SCI clearance

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