Trajectory Design and Guidance Engineer

The Role

You will be the core driver of the spacecraft’s orbital and guidance systems – including low thrust trajectory design and mission planning, while executing detailed trade studies to find new and novel ways to implement these strategies, and supporting business development in mission planning and constellation design.

In the first 3 months, you will own and execute all major trade studies related to the low thrust trajectory design of the vehicle while supporting the development of a robust and sustainable 6-DOF simulation for the company. In the first 6 months you will begin designing and implementing the core GNC algorithms that fly the spacecraft, with a particular focus on algorithms for on orbit station keeping and low thrust orbit raise. In the first year, you and the GNC team will complete the first flight demonstration of the GNC system while preparing for future generations of spacecraft.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other engineers to develop a novel high level vehicle mission plan
• Develop novel algorithms for precise OD and station-keeping of very large structures in earth orbit and beyond
• Leveraging one of the largest Hall Effect Thrusters...