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GNC Engineer (Optical Systems)

Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, USA
Full-time
Entry
Onsite
USD 125000-155000 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago

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Responsibilities

  • Implement GNC flight, test, and analysis artifacts for high-performance GNC-adjacent optical systems produced at scale
  • Develop robust identification, attitude resolution, and object detection algorithms for star trackers and other imaging systems
  • Quantify and verify expected sensor performance via first-principles, simulation, and hardware verification
  • Contribute to vehicle-level attitude determination improvements and analyses
  • Participate in software development, both flight code and simulation
  • Create tools for ground and on-orbit development, alignments, and verification, enabling new iterations and design decisions to be realized quickly
  • Resolve technical issues with innovative, resourceful solutions
  • Communicate design needs, intent, and capability to the broader engineering team
  • Support relative navigation and optical communication imaging systems
  • For Senior and higher, mentor other engineers and define the best practices for sensor-level design and integration into space vehicles

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of experience in image processing and optical analysis
  • Proficiency in Matlab and C++
  • Demonstrated experience with camera systems and fundamentals of attitude determination
  • Experience with sensor noise modeling, photometric calibration, or low-light imaging

Preferred Skills And Experience

  • Master’s or PhD in aerospace, electrical, computer science, or related degree
  • Strong mathematical background in Kalman filtering and probability analysis
  • Demonstrated experience in developing star tracker starlight-in-quaternion-out algorithms
  • Experience with ground-based testing of optical systems
  • Experience with computer vision, machine learning, or pattern recognition in imaging systems
  • Experience in a startup or agile development environment
  • Experience in spacecraft GNC fundamentals and vehicle interactions with high-performance optical systems

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