Spacecraft Orbiter Guidance, Navigation, and Control Software Engineer
ispace, inc.7 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop orbiter GNC designs and perform guidance, control, navigation, dynamics, thruster, sensor, and covariance analyses.
- Design, implement, test, verify, and validate spacecraft GNC algorithms using software testing and simulation.
- Support unit, functional, system, MIL, SIL, PIL, and HIL testing campaigns and evaluate test results from a GNC design perspective.
- Conduct pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight analysis and participate in spacecraft flight operations.
- Develop flight operation procedures and support ground-system interfaces and tool design.
- Troubleshoot GNC flight software algorithms and components and propose solutions for errors and misbehavior.
- Document GNC subsystem technical specifications and support future spacecraft development studies.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in AOCS or GNC subsystem engineering.
- Experience developing spacecraft navigation algorithms, including extended Kalman filters and orbital, attitude, and position calculations.
- Experience developing spacecraft attitude-control algorithms, including PID control, thruster commanding, modulation, and allocation.
- Experience with spacecraft 6DOF simulations involving state propagation, dynamics, hardware modeling, and closed-loop integration.
- Experience developing with C/C++, Python, and Git.
- Strong communication skills, a collaborative attitude, and business-level English proficiency.
- Preferred: 10 or more years of AOCS or GNC subsystem engineering experience.
- Preferred: space-industry systems engineering, spacecraft operations, MATLAB/Simulink, multi-language software integration, and real-time flight software implementation experience.
- Preferred: business-level Japanese communication skills.
Benefits
- The role is based in Tokyo and is hybrid.
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.