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    Centennial, CO

    Louisville, CO

    time type

    Full time

    posted on

    Posted 3 Days Ago

    job requisition id

    R23655


    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 product lifecycle.


    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 international organizations. Learn more about Sierra Space

    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 Senior 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 at least most 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:
    Active TS/SCI US Government security clearance
    Bachelor's of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering or other related discipline and typically 10 or more years of relevant 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

    Preferred:
    Experience leading GNC integrated product teams for space vehicle development
    Experience providing technical oversight of junior engineers
    Experience with system modeling tools, such as MATLAB/Simulink, STK
    Experience in RPO development and test
    Knowledge of the ramifications imposed on GNC design by RPO activities
    Experience with GNC analysis and simulation
    Experience with C/C++
    Experience with Python
    Experience with containerization and microservices
    Previous experience with navigation filters and fault detection algorithms
    Experience with related aerospace vehicles, sensor suites, and missions
    Exposure to vehicle stability principles and control system design and analysis
    Experience with auto-code generation
    Past history of leading baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including the use of highly integrated trade studies and analysis of alternative
    Experience providing scheduling and budgetary inputs for GNC efforts
    Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
    Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

    IMPORTANT NOTICE:
    This position requires an 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:
    Frequently walk, sit, stand, climb stairs and steps
    Frequently repeat same hand, arm, and finger motion many times to include finger and hand dexterity
    Rarely lifting or carrying up to 25 lbs.


    Working Conditions:
    Rarely exposed to outdoor elements (high/low temperatures, sun, rain/snow, etc.)
    Rarely exposed to fumes or hazardous chemicals/materials
    Rarely exposed to loud noises

    Application Deadline:
    This role will remain posted until a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

    With 30+ years of proven spaceflight heritage, Sierra Space has provided more than 4,000 space systems, subsystems and components to customers worldwide, and participated in more than 500 missions to space, including to Mars.

    The company has technology in production and in development to enable space habitats for short- and long-duration space travel, a fleet of Dream Chaser spaceplanes, and the first free-flying commercial space station.

    Please visit to learn more about Sierra Space, its business areas, capabilities, programs, products and services.

    Estimated Starting Salary Range:
    $120, $180,828.15

    Sierra Space offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.


    Sierra Space offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 8%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

    At Sierra Space, our mission is to dream, innovate, inspire and empower the next generation to transform humanity through technology and imagination.

    As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome our employees to bring their whole selves to their work.

    Sierra Space is committed to fostering an inclusive, accepting, and diverse environment free of discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

    Contributions to Sierra Space come in many shapes and styles, and we believe diversity in our workforce fosters new and greater ways to dream, innovate, and inspire.

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