GNC Hardware Engineer
Muon Space, Mountain View, CA +1
The role
Muon seeks a talented Spacecraft Attitude Control System (ACS) AKA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) hardware engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has experience or is excited to work with attitude sensors and actuators from component sizing analysis through build-vs-buy decisions, integration, testing, and on-orbit support.
This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our Mountain View, CA office three days per week.
What you will do
- Evaluate GNC sensor and actuator trade space to meet power, cost, performance, and ConOps requirements
- Characterize GNC hardware performance and interactions with other systems, like software, electrical, and thermal
- Build, validate and improve simulation models of GNC components
- Perform trade studies to inform sensor and actuator configuration on the spacecraft
- Define and execute test plans for design verification, qualification testing, and acceptance testing, at the standalone component level and integrated system level