Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer

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Наша компания

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by over $1 billion in total funding from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and T. Rowe Price — and with over $1 billion in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers, we're mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space. The rise of heavy-lift launch vehicles is shifting the industry from an

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With multiple launches in 2027 and plans to scale to 100 satellites a year, we're Building Bigger — helping develop the solar system and build toward a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization. If you are a motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and you're excited about contributing to the success of a high-growth Series D-funded company, we'd love for you to apply.

Чем предстоит заниматься

In the first year, you will support launch and on orbit operations of the first full stacked demonstration of 3 K2 spacecraft buses – aka the Trinity mission. In parallel, you will support the block 2 upgrades of the GNC stack and 6-DOF sim, taking lessons learned from on orbit operations to increase the fidelity of the simulation, the vehicle performance and mechanism performance of the GNC stack

Work with other engineering leads to develop and validate a novel high level vehicle architecture

Develop novel algorithms for precise pointing of very large, flexible structures in earth orbit and beyond

Develop novel algorithms for precise pointing of mechanisms, effectively characterizing and rejecting disturbances and jitter

Develop novel slewing algorithms of very large, flexible structures in earth orbit and beyond

Develop simulation and modeling tools to support vehicle and GNC trade studies. This includes mission design, controls analysis, and 6-DOF simulation development

Contribute to building the GNC organization by recruiting, hiring, and mentoring other engineers

Наши требования

Experience with GNC actuator or sensor sizing, selection, and system design

Experience with implementing control and/or estimation algorithms

Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing

Experience with Python, Julia, C/C++, or Matlab for algorithm development, implementation, and simulation

Experience with early-stage conceptual design, i.e. “clean sheet” design work

Experience with control algorithm development

Experience with reaction wheel, control moment gyroscope, motor or thruster sizing and algorithm implementation

Experience with navigation, specifically Extended Kalman Filters

Experience with trajectory analysis, modeling, and mission design

Мы предлагаем

Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level

Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks

If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!

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Дополнительно

Base salary range for this role is $110,000 - $200,000 + equity in the company

As a GNC engineer, you will be a core driver of the GNC architecture for internally developed actuators that support the overall platform capabilities. You will execute detailed trade studies to find new and novel ways to implement navigation and control of K2 mechanisms. In the first 3 months, you will support the development of the control infrastructure, from discrete filter design in the time domain to thorough analysis in the frequency domain. In the first 6 months, you will own and execute the Verification and Validation plan for mechanism GNC, driving the system to flight readiness via a robust and thorough analysis of performance in both nominal and off nominal environments. This push for flight readiness will motivate thorough analysis, leading to updates to both the GNC stack, the K2 6-DOF simulation, HOOTL (Hardware Out Of the Loop), and HITL (Hardware In The Loop). The expectation is that all GNC team members commit code to the 6-DOF sim as well as owning a portion of the GNC flight software

K2 Space Corporation

Los Angeles, CA

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Опубликовано11 мая

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