Spacecraft Descent Guidance, Navigation, and Control Software Engineer
ispace, inc.7 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement landing GNC flight software and truth-side lunar lander models.
- Develop unit-, integration-, and system-level testing frameworks for GNC algorithms.
- Support MIL, SIL, PIL, and HIL software test campaigns and evaluate results from a GNC design perspective.
- Perform guidance, control, navigation, trajectory, thruster, attitude-dynamics, sloshing, flexible-dynamics, covariance, and sensor analyses, while developing dedicated software tools.
- Support pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight analysis, flight operations, operational procedures, and ground-system interface and tool design.
- Document GNC subsystem technical specifications and troubleshoot algorithms and components to mitigate errors and misbehavior.
- Support future space vehicle development studies and mission feasibility work.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of AOCS or GNC subsystem engineering experience.
- Experience with 6DOF spacecraft simulations, including state propagation, dynamics and hardware modeling, and closed-loop integration.
- Experience developing spacecraft trajectory optimization, onboard guidance, attitude-control, and navigation algorithms.
- Experience with C/C++, Python, Git, clean code practices, and unit testing frameworks.
- Business-level English communication skills and effective cross-functional teamwork.
- Preferred: 10+ years of AOCS/GNC experience, real-time flight software implementation, software integration across programming languages, space-systems engineering, spacecraft operations, MATLAB/Simulink, and business-level Japanese.
Benefits
- Hybrid position requiring onsite presence.
- Opportunity to support development studies for future space vehicle missions.
About ispace, inc.
ispace, inc. designs and manufactures robotic lunar landers and micro rovers that deliver customer payloads and collect data on the Moon for space agencies and commercial users. Its business model centers on lunar transportation and surface operations services, sold as payload slots, mission integration, and data products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, the company is publicly listed in Japan and operates subsidiaries in Luxembourg and the United States.