# GNC Engineer, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

As a GNC Engineer for the Space team, you will work on the design of satellite GNC subsystems, including hardware sensors and actuators, orbit mechanics, navigation algorithms, flight software implementation, subsystem integration and testing, and vehicle integration and testing.

The GNC engineering team will work closely with related teams, including Systems, Flight Software, Mission Operations, and Ground Software. The GNC Engineer will work on algorithm design, truth and physics modeling, simulation and analysis for various spacecraft and space missions.

## Responsibilities

- Work on spacecraft GNC software and hardware subsystems for various spacecraft efforts in all orbital regimes

- Develop modern, software-defined approaches to autonomous spacecraft operations with maneuvering capabilities

- Develop 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, 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 spacecraft systems

- Design flight software, algorithms, and simulation products

- Develop 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

## Requirements

- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Aerospace Engineering, Dynamics and Controls Engineering, Computer Science, or other engineering degree

- Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C++, Go, and/or Linux Systems

- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements

- Experience with orbital mechanics and resident space object tracking capabilities

- Familiarity with rendezvous proximity operations and docking, orbital mechanics with propulsive spacecraft, and/or spacecraft attitude determination and controls

- Strong knowledge of spacecraft dynamics, orbital mechanics, and control theory

- Clear communication and organizational skills, including documentation and training material

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Go, C++, and/or Linux systems

- Desire to work on critical software and hardware designs in the space domain

- Experience testing propulsion subsystems in laboratory environments that mimic space environmental constraints

- Experience conducting spacecraft operations and satellite command and control with an emphasis on system reliability and uptime

- Experience with testing/validation leveraging FlatSats, Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds, and digital spacecraft simulators

- Experience with computer vision and perception algorithms to support GNC operations

- Experience developing 3-DOF simplified and 6-DOF high-fidelity dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation

- Exposure to US satellite operations policy and constraints for relevant mission threads in all orbits

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Dynamics and Controls Engineering
- Computer Science
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Python
- C++
- Go
- Linux Systems
- orbital mechanics
- resident space object tracking capabilities
- rendezvous proximity operations and docking
- spacecraft attitude determination and controls
- spacecraft dynamics
- control theory

### Nice to have
- testing propulsion subsystems
- spacecraft operations
- satellite command and control
- FlatSats
- Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds
- digital spacecraft simulators
- computer vision
- perception algorithms
- 3-DOF simplified and 6-DOF high-fidelity dynamics simulation models

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