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GNC Engineer (Starship)

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

About the role

GNC Engineer responsible for flight control systems for Starship, developing and testing guidance, navigation, and control for a fully reusable spacecraft, with a focus on simulations, trajectories, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

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
  • Experience with control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, modeling, and simulation
  • Experience with the software languages Python or C++

Skills

Required:Control systemsPython
Nice to have:C++
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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