Sr. Spacecraft Navigation Engineer
Advanced SpaceHighlight
Summary
About the Role
About You
- 8-12 years of relevant experience, with a Master’s degree or PhD with emphasis on Kalman filters and state estimation.
- Experience in mission implementation of flight and ground navigation architectures.
- Experience developing navigation algorithms or designing filters.
- Proficiency in scientific computing and software development.
- Familiarity with navigation tools, such as MONTE, FreeFlyer, ODTK.
- Ability to work independently and define tasking based on top-level mission goals.
- Strong presentation and writing skills.
- Experience with Python or similar analytic toolset.
- Understanding of 3-body orbit regimes or deep space navigation considerations.
- Knowledge of clock errors and their impact on navigation.
- Familiarity with radiometric navigation observables and error sources.
- Experience with orbit analysis tools, such as MONTE, GMAT, STK, FreeFlyer.
- High performance computing.
Benefits
- Base Salary Range: $135k - $165k based on role, experience, and location.
- Signing bonus.
- Quarterly performance bonuses.
- Company-provided health insurance and 401K plan upon eligibility.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Relocation assistance.
Delivering innovation to orbit. Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise to improve the fundamentals of spaceflight. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, international and national security customers. Through its Mission Enabling Services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, and mission systems engineering. With its Technology Solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique rapid turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases as well as demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.