Do you have an eye for detail and a passion for developing innovation
solutions? Join our team! As a Guidance, Navigation and Control
Engineer, you will be using your skills and expertise to design and test
algorithms, flight software, related hardware, design tools,
simulations, and more for various aerospace vehicles. These cover a very
wide range from advanced mission payloads and electronic systems through
highly integrated aircraft to orbital and space exploration systems. You'll
explore complex GN&C algorithms and systems to assess performance of vehicle
flight qualities and capabilities. Your technical duties involve the design,
development, evaluation, and test of new products and processes throughout the
Sierra Space-based in Louisville, CO with operations in Madison, WI,
Durham, NC, Huntsville, AL, Houston, TX, and Kennedy Space
Center, FL-designs and manufactures the Dream Chaser spaceplane and other
advanced spacecraft, commercial space destinations, satellites,
propulsion and environmental systems, spacecraft subsystems and components
for the U.S. government (including NASA), commercial customers, and
internation
Sierra Space's Orbital Missions and Services (OMS) division focuses on
the design, build, and operations of small satellites in support of
commercial services and national security space and offers two work
locations: Louisville, Colorado and Centennial, Colorado.
As a Principal Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer, you will be
using your skills and expertise to design and analyze satellite hardware and
software configurations, design and test GNC algorithms, build and test
flight software, create and use design tools, build and analyze
simulations, and more for various small satellite programs. Your technical
duties involve the design, development, evaluation, and test of new
products and software throughout the product lifecycle.
The design of configurations and algorithms stem from understanding,
analyzing and evaluating satellite and constellation capabilities, mission
concepts, and system requirements. Your work will ensure we meet customer
requirements by making data-driven decisions in architecting, planning,
building and testing the design in a testbed prototype and subsequent delivery
of the end product. Along the way, you will build tools and contribute to
analyses of various architectures that include space vehicles, satellites,
sensors, communications, and ground infrastructure; evolving or creating
new approaches based on analysis results. You will also contribute to
evaluating the mission effectiveness of the candidate approaches, balancing
mission objectives against factors such as development and lifecycle costs.
The successful candidate will have experience with all portions of the
software life cycle (concept development, requirements definition,
design, development, testing, and deployment). Additionally, the
successful candidate will have experience doing GN&C-related analysis such
as performance analysis, multi-sensor fusion and estimation/filtering,
sensor processing and/or other advanced GN&C analyses. This individual has
a strong working knowledge of Matlab and Simulink and experience with code
development. Object-oriented design using the C and C++ languages is a
plus, as is having experience in deploying and testing flight code on
embedded processors. Experience with Agile Scrum is desired. Local area travel
between Louisville and Centennial may be required.
Must-haves:
Bachelor's of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering or other related
discipline and typically 14 or more years of experience
Relevant experience may substitute for degree
Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practices
Demonstrated experience with Computer Aided Engineering tools, analysis and
simulation
Ability to work in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
Active TS/SCI United States government security clearanc
Preferred:
Experience leading GNC integrated product teams for space vehicle development
Experience providing technical oversight of junior engineers
Understanding of engineering principles and practices
Experience with system modeling tools, such as MATLAB/Simulink, STK,
or Free Flyer
Experience with related aerospace vehicles, sensors suites, and missions
Knowledge of industry standard system engineering design principles, to
include, classical and Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)
Exposure to vehicle stability principles and control system design and
analysis
Knowledge of industry standard aerospace principles, to include, but not
limited to parametric design, model-based definition, fundamentals of
flight and/or orbital mechanics
Past history of leading baseline definition and maturation in a complex
development setting, including the use of highly integrated trade studies
and analysis of alternatives
Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This position requires current/active Top Secret with SCI eligibility U.S.
Security Clearance. U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs
an active U.S. Security Clearance for employment. Non-U.S. Citizens may not be
eligible to obtain a security clearance. The Department of Defense
Consolidated Adjudications Facility (DoD CAF), a federal government
agency, handles the adjudicative aspects of the security clearance
eligibility process for industry applicants. Adjudicative factors which affect
the outcome of the eligibility determination include, but are not limited
to, allegiance to the U.S., foreign influence, foreign preference,
criminal conduct, security violations and illegal drug use.
Physical/Mental/Emotional Requirements:
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