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Salary: USD 166,000 - 219,000 / annual
Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider founded in 2021, is seeking a Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) / Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) engineer to join their team. The role combines deep technical expertise with systems-level thinking to design and optimize spacecraft control architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement guidance, navigation, and control architectures and algorithms in embedded C++ environments
- Define requirements for ADCS algorithms, hardware, and related systems for both existing missions and roadmap development
- Perform analysis and simulation of mission-specific GNC performance
- Collaborate on development of ground-processing algorithms for sensor calibration
- Collaborate on development of offline geolocation processing pipelines
- Support anomaly resolution of on-orbit systems, including on-call duties
- Support software- and hardware-in-the-loop test planning, execution, and validation
The ideal candidate brings a systems mindset and can collaborate across disciplines to deliver elegant, best-fit spacecraft designs. This is a fully remote position available to approved locations.
Qualifications:
- PhD or Master's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering with at least 2-3 years of professional experience, OR several years of hands-on experience with GNC analysis and design
- Proficiency in C++ software development
- Strong knowledge of control and optimization theory
- Expertise in numerical programming environments (Python, Julia, MATLAB)
- Demonstrated experience designing, analyzing, and implementing ADCS/GNC subsystems for spacecraft
- Excellent communication, presentation, and coordination skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
Nice-to-have skills include experience with control stability analysis of flexible bodies, ADCS for precision pointing platforms, spacecraft flight operations, and US Government security clearance. Note: This position requires access to export-controlled information and applicants must be US persons or eligible to access such information per ITAR/EAR regulations.
