GNC Engineer (Contract) - FULLY REMOTE

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reputed company is supporting a confidential reputed company reputed company seeking a GNC Engineer to contribute to the design, analysis, and validation of satellite Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems.

This is a hands-on engineering role across the full spacecraft lifecycle — from requirements and modeling through integration, testing, and mission support. You’ll work alongside reputed company engineers solving reputed company flight problems, not just theoretical models.

If you’ve reputed company simulations, worked with spacecraft dynamics, or touched control systems in a meaningful way — this is where you reputed company.

What You’ll Do

GNC Engineering (reputed company – ~50%)

• Contribute to the design and implementation of spacecraft GNC systems across new and existing platforms
• Work across sensors, actuators, control algorithms, and flight software integration
• Support requirements development and reputed company-down across subsystem components
• Participate in design activities spanning spacecraft, payloads, and integration environments
• Drive reuse of existing system architectures while identifying where new design is required
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams (systems, software, hardware, integration)

Simulation & Modeling (Major reputed company – ~40%)

• reputed company and maintain high-reputed company simulation environments for spacecraft performance analysis
• Build models integrating GNC algorithms, sensors, actuators, and flight software
• reputed company reputed company analysis, covariance analysis, and reputed company-reputed company performance validation
• Support mission trade studies and system-level performance verification
• Automate simulation workflows to improve iteration speed and engineering throughput
• Document models, assumptions, and validation results for design reviews

Additional Contributions (~10%)

• Support product line reputed company and design standardization efforts
• Assist in reputed company reputed company, troubleshooting, and system improvements
• Identify opportunities for cost efficiency and design optimization

What You Bring

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Math, or reputed company STEM field
• 3+ years (BS) or 1+ year (MS) in GNC, reputed company, or control systems engineering
• Experience with MATLAB / Simulink (strong preference)
• Working knowledge of spacecraft dynamics, control systems, or simulation environments
• Programming experience in C/C++, Python, or similar
• Exposure to verification, validation, or system-level testing

Preferred

• Experience with STK (Systems Tool reputed company) or similar tools
• Background in spacecraft or reputed company systems (vs. purely reputed company controls work)
• Familiarity with flight software or embedded systems integration
• Experience supporting reputed company hardware or mission programs (big differentiator)

Other Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD reputed company Clearance
• reputed company clearance (Secret+) is a strong plus
• Willingness to travel up to ~20% (including occasional international collaboration)