GNC Engineer - Navigation, Flight Software

About the role

As a GNC Engineer at Isar Aerospace, you will develop the guidance, navigation, and control systems that enable the Spectrum launch vehicle to operate safely and efficiently. You will design, verify, and validate flight algorithms to determine the vehicle's position, velocity, and attitude throughout all phases of flight. Your work will involve combining flight dynamics, state estimation, control theory, and high-fidelity simulation to ensure robust mission performance.

Responsibilities

• Architect the next generation navigation system for an orbital launch vehicle
• Perform Navigation algorithm tuning and improvements based on flight data
• Responsible for ground and flight integrity monitoring for safety critical navigation systems
• Ownership of all GNSS applications on the vehicle
• Perform GNSS Integrity studies

Required skills

• Inertial navigation algorithms
• Kalman filter
• GNSS receiver configuration
• Integrity monitoring
• MATLAB
• Python
• C++
• Git

Nice to have

• RTK
• PPK
• Discrete signal processing

Qualifications

• BSc/MSc/PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or Robotics Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar

Benefits

• Employee Participation Program
• 30 days of vacation
• Company pension plan
• Subsidised lunch
• Rental clothing with laundry service
• Sport Clubs membership
• Individual learning allowance
• Childcare allowance
• Flexible mobility budget

About the Company

Isar Aerospace is at the forefront of New Space, building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space. The company provides sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit.