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Sr. GNC Engineer (Starship) Controls

SpaceX· Starship GNC
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Starbase, TXPosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior guidance, navigation, and control engineer focused on Starship flight control systems, responsible for development, analysis, testing, and deployment of GNC solutions for Starship in a fast-paced spaceflight environment.

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 engineeringModeling and simulationSoftware testingTrajectory analysis
Nice to have:Communication
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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