Senior GNC/AOCS Systems Engineer

Key responsibilities

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Support the definition of a “product baseline”, creating standard requirements, system architecture, ICDs, design and analysis goals, test plans and operations concepts.

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Perform system level trade-offs, coordinating inputs from various disciplines within the team, to evaluate any proposed changes of the design baseline to satisfy the need of each individual mission.

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Take ownership of the technical budgets, such as mass, propellant budget, pointing/landing accuracy for spacecraft performance.

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Ensure internal interfaces between various spacecraft subsystems are maintained.

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Contribute to requirements management ensuring all requirements are closed-out at the planned project landmarks.

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Contribute to risk assessments during the spacecraft development and support the Project Manager in defining risk mitigation plans

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Support AIT/Flight&Test Operations Groups and subsystem leads in defining test plans and specifications which will successfully verify the spacecraft design.

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Coordinate efforts between relevant subsystems and Operations Team in defining a spacecraft operational concept.

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Contribute to the maintenance of our Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and the integration.

Qualifications

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• Bachelor or Masters degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent
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• 5+ years of experience in at least two of the following: design, implementation, integration, V&V or operations of GNC (AOCS) subsystem
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• Experience with programming languages such as Matlab, Python, or equivalent
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• Self-motivated and comfortable making key decisions within a fast-paced environment
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• High sense of accountability and ownership
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• Excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written. Enthusiastic attitude and team player
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• Working level in English
• Preferred skills
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• Experience with design, analysis or testing of at least one other subsystem: Structure, Thermal, Avionics, Propulsion, Communications, On-board software.
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• Experience with requirement decomposition (mission all the way to unit level)
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• Experience performing FMECA, reliability analysis, and/or hazard analysis
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• Experience with system level testing such as hardware-in-the-loop testing
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• Experience with spacecraft operations
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• Working level Japanese