Senior GNC Trajectory Engineer, Space

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. We're developing fully integrated hardware and software systems, including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads, to address growing threats in space and ensure our Guardians maintain a decisive advantage in this contested warfighting domain.

As a Sr. GNC (Guidance, Navigation & Control) Engineer (Trajectory and Guidance) for our Space team, you will own the understanding and design of the guidance subsystem and offline simulation tools while maintaining a working knowledge of all satellite GNC subsystems. The successful candidate will synthesize and/or implement trajectory guidance algorithms, build simulations to solve key mission needs, use the simulations to help craft mission solutions, migrate the algorithms into flight code, and verify proper performance in the flight baseline.  The GNC engineering team will work closely with related teams, including Systems, Flight Software, Mission Operations, and Ground Software. The Sr. GNC Engineer will lead algorithm design, truth and physics modeling, mission design, constellation design, simulation and analysis for a wide variety of spacecraft and space missions across all regimes that could include Reentry and RPOD. The Sr. GNC Engineer will help lead successful implementation, validation and GNC operations of Anduril’s fleet of spacecraft.
This role is directly tied to ongoing, funded programs within Anduril’s Space Business Line. The programs require building and fielding a resilient, software-defined spacecraft systems across numerous mission threads. We work with mission partners and customers to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the DOD and IC.

• Be responsible for algorithm selection and design for space trajectories that inform mission and constellation design.
• Field simulation solutions that show mission closure to key customer requirements.
• Use your innovations to enhance Anduril’s Mission Simulation and Lattice for Space capabilities.
• Field your solutions to spacecraft GNC software and hardware subsystems for various spacecraft efforts in all orbital regimes and work closely with bus providers for successful implementation.
• Develop modern, software-defined approaches to autonomous spacecraft operations with maneuvering capabilities to successfully accomplish mission objectives.
• Develop appropriate test plans and procedures to validate the GNC system during ground checkout, on-orbit commissioning and operations.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Coordinate with end-users, other operators and customers to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Support challenging schedules during ground testing, launch windows and on-orbit operations of the spacecraft systems.

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Astrodynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Dynamics and Controls Engineering, Computer Science, or other engineering degree.
• Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C++, Go, and/or Linux Systems. 
• Experience building complex simulation capabilities.
• Experience conducting spacecraft operations and satellite command and control with an emphasis on system reliability and uptime.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements.
• Experience with orbital mechanics and resident space object tracking capabilities.
• Experience developing 3-DOF simplified and 6-DOF high-fidelity dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation.
• Familiarity with rendezvous proximity operations and docking, orbital mechanics with propulsive spacecraft, spacecraft attitude determination and controls.
• Strong knowledge of spacecraft dynamics, orbital mechanics, and control theory.
• Clear communication and organizational skills including documentation and training material.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

• Strong Astrodynamics background applied into new or existing simulation systems.
• Experience developing ground-up simulation frameworks for rapid mission prototyping, constellation and CONOP design.
• A desire to work on critical simulation and software designs for the space domain.
• Experience testing and delivering algorithms for simulation and flight environments.
• Experience with genetic algorithms, machine learning, AI, and reinforcement learning algorithms to support GNC operations.
• Exposure to US satellite operations policy and constraints for relevant mission threads in all orbits.