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Katalyst Space Technologies · 2 weeks ago

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Flagstaff, AZ

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$80K/yr - $110K/yr

4+ years exp

Katalyst Space Technologies builds robotic spacecraft for dynamic space operations, aiming to enhance national security and freedom of action in space. The Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer will focus on designing, building, testing, and analyzing GNC systems essential for spacecraft operations and Space Domain Awareness products.

AerospaceIndustrialSpace Travel

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Architect solutions necessary to accomplish space mission objectives around RPOD with an emphasis on autonomy, from both a hardware and software perspective

Evaluate and select appropriate techniques to achieve mission such as machine learning methods, physics-informed solutions, stochastic methods, Kalman Filters, etc

Develop spacecraft guidance and control algorithms for proximity ops

Own relative navigation, sensor fusion and state estimation (cameras, lidar, IMUs, GPS) as well as navigation filter design

Develop autonomous trajectory planning for approach sequences

Collaborate with the propulsion and other spacecraft teams to support ADCS design and implementation

Work with the Flight software team to integrate GNC algorithms into in-house developed flight software

Support hardware/software in the loop testing

Perform collision avoidance and safety analysis

Design concepts of operations (CONOPS) that balance thermal, power, momentum and communications for spacecraft missions

Qualification

GuidanceNavigationControlSoftware DevelopmentPythonC/C++Orbital MechanicsSensor FusionReal-time Embedded SystemsCollision AvoidanceCommunicationProject LeadershipProblem SolvingTeam Collaboration