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University of California, Berkeley · 14 hours ago

Flight Dynamics/GNC Engineer (5221C), Space Sciences Laboratory - #83693

Berkeley, CA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$115K/yr - $125K/yr

The University of California, Berkeley is a world-leading institution known for its academic and research excellence. They are seeking a Flight Dynamics/GNC Engineer to support spacecraft navigation and mission design tasks for multiple NASA missions, ensuring the spacecraft operate effectively to collect science data.

Responsibilities

Under supervision, provides mission operations support for ongoing projects

Generates and analyzes orbit and attitude determination solutions and mission planning products

Provides spacecraft maneuver planning, analysis, and calibrations for missions with propulsive capabilities

Under guidance of managers and principle investigators designs, develops, modifies, debugs and evaluates flight dynamics and navigation systems that are part of the multi-mission operations system and its components

Provides support for mission design, flight dynamics, and navigation analyses for proposals and projects in pre-launch phases

Interacts with other aerospace engineering specialists, and outside collaborators, to develop and maintain the flight dynamics components of our mission operations system

Responds to spacecraft anomalies in flight dynamics systems or assist spacecraft operators in their tasks to investigate and recover from on-orbit, or ground system, anomalies

Gathers and analyzes information and prepares reports with respect to feasibility, flight dynamics design criteria and performance of their related products in support of formal project review processes

Writes, analyzes, prepares and summarizes operational procedures and reports

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Spacecraft navigationTrajectory determinationMission designFlight design toolsPythonMATLABLINUXGit/GitLabData managementNASA mission experienceCommunication skills

Required

Experience in the design, development, and navigation of spacecraft

Relevant work or school experience in at least one of the following: spacecraft navigation, trajectory determination, or mission design

Experience using at least one commonly used flight design tool such as Mission Analysis, Operations, and Navigation Toolkit Environment (MONTE), General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT), Copernicus, or other related mission design and trajectory analysis software systems

Skilled in the use of Python, MATLAB, LINUX. VS Code, and Git/GitLab

Working systems level knowledge of other engineering specialties involved in the design and development of spacecraft

Must be able to travel up to 5% as needed for work events

Must be able to travel within the US to support in-person meetings and work on EAR programs

Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training

Preferred

Demonstrated ability to communicate, or present in a formal setting, technical information to technical and nontechnical personnel at various levels in the organization

Experience using InfluxDB and/or MySQL for data management and Grafana for building monitoring dashboards

Previous experience with, or exposure to, NASA missions