GNC Engineer (Optical Systems)
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
Level
Mid Level
Department
Systems Engineering
Type
Full-Time
Salary
$125,000 - $155,000
Job Description
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As a Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer (Optical Systems) at Impulse Space, you will own all aspects of and provide outstanding technical contribution to star trackers and optical navigation systems in all phases of development and operation while working closely with a fast paced, agile team.
Responsibilities
- Implement GNC flight, analysis, and test artifacts for high-performance GNC-adjacent optical systems produced at scale
- Develop robust identification, attitude resolution, and object detection algorithms for star trackers and other imaging systems
- Support relative navigation through imaging systems
- Quantify and verify expected sensor performance via first-principles, simulation, and hardware verification
- Contribute to vehicle-level attitude determination improvements and analyses
- Participate in software development, both flight code and simulation
- Create tools for ground and on-orbit development, alignments, and verification, enabling new iterations and design decisions to be realized quickly
- Resolve technical issues with innovative, resourceful solutions
- Communicate design needs, intent, and capability to the broader engineering team
- For Senior and higher, mentor other engineers and define the best practices for sensor-level design and integration into space vehicles
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in image processing and optical analysis
- Proficiency in Matlab and C++
- Demonstrated experience with camera systems and fundamentals of attitude determination
- Experience with sensor noise modeling, photometric calibration, or low-light imaging
