Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer V - RPO

Location: Louisville, Colorado; must be local to the work location. Occasional telework is available. Must be a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR and able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

Salary: $161,669.89–$271,112.57 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides engineering and technical services for federal government and aerospace missions.

What you will do

• Own the relative-navigation, guidance, and control architecture for autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking missions.
• Develop EKF/UKF filters, sensor fusion, and relative orbit determination using vision, LIDAR, and relative GNSS.
• Design V-bar/R-bar and glideslope approaches, station-keeping, fly-around and inspection maneuvers, safe-hold points, and passive-abort trajectories.
• Develop 6-DOF relative guidance and control through final approach, docking, and capture, including actuator control allocation.
• Lead GN&C verification and validation through closed-loop simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, and processor- and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Mentor engineers, lead GN&C content in design reviews, and support mission planning, ADCS, propulsion, orbit analysis, and proposals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a computational field, with 18+ years of experience for a BS, 16+ for an MS, or 12+ for a PhD.
• Strong knowledge of orbit and attitude dynamics, relative orbital mechanics, space-environment modeling, and spacecraft estimation or control theory.
• Hands-on algorithm development experience in C++ and Python or similar languages.
• Experience with modern software development practices and version control, preferably Git.
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• U.S. person status under ITAR/EAR and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with rendezvous, proximity operations, formation flying, on-orbit servicing, or flight GN&C.
• Vision- or LIDAR-based relative navigation and pose estimation experience.
• MATLAB/Simulink, model-based design, autocoding, advanced control methods, or embedded real-time flight software experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with occasional telework flexibility.
• Health, life, disability, retirement, and savings benefits may be available depending on the position.
• Paid time off and holiday pay.
• Learning and development opportunities and wellness programs.
• Additional optional benefit elections may be available.