GNC Simulation Engineer I

1 week ago


Long Beach, California, United States Relativity Space Full time
Company Overview

At Relativity Space, we're pushing the boundaries of innovation in additive manufacturing and aerospace technology. Our mission is to create humanity's industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life and expanding the possibilities of the human experience.

We're a rapidly growing space startup, and we're seeking a highly talented GNC Engineer to join our team. This position will provide outstanding technical contribution to the development of the Terran R vehicle guidance, navigation, and control.

Job Summary

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary vehicle engineering team to develop control and guidance solutions, assess the impact of designs on vehicle controllability and performance, and work with the flight software team to implement control algorithms and navigation solutions into Terran R.

Additionally, you will support ground and flight tests for the Terran R launch vehicle.

Key Responsibilities
  • Developing the software needed to set up a simulation environment
  • Supporting multi-disciplinary vehicle and software design trades and develop software requirements
  • Running analysis software that captures complex software and physics interaction
  • Simulation sequencer/scheduler and logging tools
  • Developing visualization tools
  • Developing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) and automation
  • Developing simulation interfaces with Hardware testing
  • Physics model development
Requirements
  • Experience with compiled languages and creating high performance code
  • Experience working with advanced software development practices such as Docker, Continuous Integration and Cloud deployment
  • Experience working with numerical techniques such as ODE's and optimization routines
  • Experience in taking complex analysis results and clearly communicating conclusions and recommendations to management
  • Excited about programming and learning new programming languages
About Relativity Space

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We offer competitive salary and equity, a generous vacation policy, an annual L&D stipend, and more.



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