# Astrodynamics Engineer (Lead/Senior)

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,000 - $183,000
**Category**: Engineering

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Astrodynamics Engineer to join our team as a Lead/Senior engineer. As an Astrodynamics Engineer, you will be the Responsible Engineering Authority (REA) for the Astrodynamics subsystem for a given program, study, or proposal.

Responsibilities:

- Perform astrodynamics and orbit analyses

- Determine and derive astrodynamics requirements to meet customer requirements and perform customer missions

- Optimize spacecraft trajectories based on fuel, time, and/or performance characteristics

- Define/develop tools and processes to be used by mission operations and the broader team

- Oversee Astrodynamics Engineering across a range of programs and portfolios

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

- Provide technical leadership of a team of engineers in support of a program, including decomposition and delegation of tasks

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or a related technical discipline and a minimum of 5 years of engineering industry experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- 3 or more years' experience in orbital mechanics, orbit design, or astrodynamics

- 3 or more years' experience with orbit design and simulation software tools (e.g. GMAT, STK, COTS mission planning tools, etc.) and scientific computing software (MATLAB, Python, Julia, Fortran, C++, etc.)

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance (post-start) for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

- 9+ years industry experience in orbit analysis role(s)

- Experience with rendezvous and proximity operations or formation flight

- Specialization in advanced orbital mechanics topics (e.g., trajectory optimization, relative motion maneuvering, orbit determination techniques, etc.)

- Ability to architect novel methods, algorithms, and solutions for complex mission analyses

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

- Development of industry leading knowledge, methods, and techniques within the realm of spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control (GNC)

- Active U.S. Top Secret Security 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

Salary Range:

- Level 3: $123,000 - $183,000

- Level 4: $150,750 - $225,000

## Skills

### Required
- astrodynamics
- orbit analysis
- spacecraft trajectories
- orbital mechanics
- MATLAB
- Python
- Julia
- Fortran
- C++

### Nice to have
- rendezvous and proximity operations
- formation flight
- trajectory optimization
- relative motion maneuvering
- orbit determination techniques

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