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Join Isar Aerospace's Flight Software team as a GNC (Guidance, Navigation & Control) Engineer. You will develop, verify, and implement algorithms that define how launch vehicles behave throughout all flight phases. This role bridges guidance strategy, navigation solutions, vehicle control techniques, and flight software implementation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and improve GNC algorithms for launch vehicle applications
- Contribute to guidance strategy, navigation solutions, and vehicle control techniques
- Support trajectory design, mission analysis, and flight performance assessment
- Develop and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments for design, development, and verification
- Model vehicle dynamics, environmental effects, sensors, actuators, and subsystem interactions
- Implement and integrate GNC algorithms within production flight software
- Create analysis, testing, and automation tools using C++, Python, and MATLAB
- Investigate anomalies and unexpected behavior in simulation, testing, and flight operations
Required qualifications:
- Background in GNC, flight dynamics, astrodynamics, aerospace engineering, robotics, or related discipline
- Strong understanding of dynamic systems and vehicle behavior
- Experience developing software in C++, Python, or similar languages
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate complex engineering concepts into practical, testable implementations
- Ability to work effectively across disciplinary boundaries with systems, avionics, and flight software engineers
- Engineering curiosity combined with technical rigor and attention to detail
- Comfort moving between equations, simulation results, flight data, software, and system-level behavior
Bonus skills: Launch vehicle, spacecraft, aircraft, or autonomous vehicle experience; guidance, navigation, estimation, or control algorithm development; validation using test or flight data; Linux development; version control; MATLAB/Simulink; practical software development experience.
