rocketlab
Senior Spacecraft GNC Engineer I
At a Glance
- Location
- Long Beach, California, United States
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Posted
- 2026-03-13T19:26:13-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Government
- Insurance
- Medical
Benefits & Perks
access to a robust benefits package including: top tier medical HMO, PPO &
Requirements
Department of Commerce, as applicable.
Active Secret or TS Security Clearance
2+ years of RPOD design and operations experience
Hands-on experience with IMU, reaction wheels, star trackers, gyroscopes, and other GNC hardware
Experience developing blended attitude solutions from a variety of sensor data
Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and verifying flight software
Responsibilities
Mentor a team responsible for GNC design, modeling, and analysis for a wide variety of spacecraft and space missions to include LEO, MEO, GEO, Lunar, Interplanetary, Reentry, and RPOD
Design of flight software, algorithms, and simulation product
Development of spacecraft autonomy tools for constellation management
GNC component selection and GNC subsystem design
Test process development and execution
Define fault detection and response