Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems Engineer
1 week ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Spacecraft Attitude Control Engineer to join our team at SAIC. As a key member of our Vehicle Engineering branch, you will play a critical role in supporting the Space and Launch (S&L) Division with technical expertise in Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems.
Key Responsibilities- Support the design, integration, and test of the Attitude Control Systems (ACS) subsystem.
- Review and coordinate changes to specifications, lCDs, and system-level requirements documentation for the ACS subsystem.
- Provide expert advice and analysis on ACS considerations for new satellite/payload developments.
- Coordinate with bus development POC, S&L subsystem leads, branch chiefs, and division chiefs.
- Provide technical evaluation of ACS efforts in contractor Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs).
- Identify and assess emerging risks; develop and evaluate proposed burn-down plans.
- Provide expert advice and analysis on accommodation considerations for new satellite/payload developments.
- Review prime contractor readiness to proceed into spacecraft manufacturing and test.
- Support factory integration and test activities, as needed.
- Provide support to launch and satellite on-orbit test, as needed.
- Attend contractor milestone reviews to provide technically based recommendations regarding satisfaction of review entrance and exit criteria.
- Attend system-level design reviews and program management reviews to assess design maturity, requirements compliance, and provide informed technical recommendations to the USG.
- Attend Vehicle Engineering branch meetings.
- Support the review of financial and earned value reports.
- Develop productive relationships with prime contractor counterparts, functional counterparts, and other spacecraft subsystem subject matter experts.
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field. Background in astrodynamics analysis preferred.
- 5+ years professional experience.
- Experience in the design and integration of satellite buses.
- Knowledgeable of launch and flight operations of space vehicles.
- Knowledge of attitude control related hardware, manufacture, and test, including control moment gyroscopes, star trackers, torque rods, thrusters, and moving mechanical actuators.
- In-depth knowledge of astrodynamics applications, such as Matlab/Simulink, STK, and Python. Knowledge of NASTRAN, nice to have.
- Knowledge of satellite attitude control algorithms, such as Kalman filter-based attitude determination, Control Moment Gyroscope steering algorithms, multi-body dynamics, controls-structures interactions.
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