GNC Engineer, Advanced Modeling
Xona Space SystemsSatellite Navigation company
Burlingame, United StatesSenior
Craft Ventures
NGP Capital
Seraphim
1517 Fund
Future Ventures
Industrious Ventures
About the role
TL;DR
Develop high-fidelity simulation and analysis capabilities for aerospace vehicle GNC systems.
- •Xona Space Systems is seeking a GNC Engineer specializing in advanced modeling to develop high-fidelity simulation and analysis capabilities for aerospace vehicle guidance, navigation, and control systems.
- •You will build nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom simulation environments and develop flexible-body and vehicle subsystem models.
- •Key Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and validate high-fidelity nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom digital twin of the spacecraft bus.
- •Develop flexible-body and structural-dynamics models for integration into vehicle simulations.
- •Build and validate physics-based models of vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and environmental disturbances.
- •Apply system identification techniques to estimate system parameters and improve model fidelity.
- •Derive linear approximate models from nonlinear systems using numerical and analytical techniques.
- •Requirements Experience developing nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom simulation platforms for aerospace vehicles.
- •Experience modeling and validating aerospace vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and environmental effects.
- •Experience developing or integrating flexible-body and structural-dynamics models.
- •Strong understanding of rigid-body dynamics, control systems, numerical methods, and linear systems.
- •Expertise in system identification and deriving linear approximations of nonlinear dynamic systems.
Required skills
PythonC++GitLinux
Domain expertise
aerospace
Tech stack
PythonC++GitLinux