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Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship GNC
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) engineer responsible for developing and validating flight control systems for Starship, including modeling, simulations, software, and flight data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Develop innovative guidance, navigation, and control systems for Starship
  • Engage in multi-disciplinary vehicle systems investigations and design work that define the systems architecture
  • Implement new software or algorithms to enable mission-unique capabilities and leading-edge launch vehicle performance
  • Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation
  • Analyze launch vehicle trajectories, performance dispersions, and flight stability
  • Conduct post-flight data review and correlation with analyses for continued improvement of predictions
  • Support launch and mission operations of vehicles that you enabled
  • Perform testing of GNC software utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, and algorithm unit testing

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of professional experience
  • Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
  • Experience with the software languages Python or C++

Skills

Required:GNC system development6-DOF dynamics simulationsTrajectory analysisSoftware testingPythonC++

Benefits

  • [Benefits not explicitly listed in the description]
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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