Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Join Spire, a leading company in the commercialization of nanosatellite systems. As a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, you will be part of a technical team responsible for the full lifecycle of the Spire GNC product and its subcomponents. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, design and implement flight sensors and actuators, and maintain simulation models. Enjoy benefits such as flexible time-off, family leave, and opportunities for personal development.

• Design, evaluate, select, qualify, and implement flight sensors and actuators for spacecraft systems.
• Develop and maintain simulation models for GNC subcomponents in a 6-DOF simulation environment.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate avionics solutions into the larger platform.
• Have experience working with external engineering contractors
• Have experience or familiarity with the Linux development environment
• Experience with actuators, including actuator sizing, modelling, design and integration
• Experience working hands-on with HW and familiarity with 'hardware-in-the-loop` simulation
• Experience with flight sensors for spacecraft attitude determination/estimation
• A solid foundation in spacecraft attitude dynamics and control algorithms, with emphasis sensor ingestions and actuator command calculation
• Experience developing software using C/Python
• Experience writing flight software
• Experience designing and/or implementing Kalman filters and feedback control for attitude estimation
• Experience with spacecraft design
• Experience with C or C++ development for embedded systems
• Experience with spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing
• Experience with spacecraft operations and maintenance
• Experience identifying and resolving system anomalies
• Experience creating and maintaining integration and test campaigns for attitude determination and control systems, including hardware and software