Spacecraft Flight Dynamics and Navigation Engineer

Are you interested in supporting NASA’s return to the Moon? Do you want to help design the systems that astronauts will use on the Lunar surface to navigate and communicate? At a.i. solutions, we are developing innovative technologies and systems to assist in humanity’s journey beyond Earth. a.i. solutions is seeking a highly motivated engineer to join our team providing flight dynamics and spacecraft navigation support for missions at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with subject matter experts in the areas of trajectory design and analysis, and navigation simulation and analysis.  You will gain experience with the Goddard Enhanced Onboard Navigation System (GEONS).   Additionally, you will have the opportunity to propose innovative ideas that improve the team’s effectiveness and efficiency. To be the successful candidate, you will need to demonstrate the ability to embrace the a.i. solutions mission and work to continually exceed the expectations of our customers.

Essential Roles & Responsibilities:

• Partner with existing team members and become fluent in the tools of choice for the mission.
• Perform trajectory and constellation design and analysis and related tool development.
• Perform analysis and simulation of novel navigation techniques to achieve future mission and systems requirements.
• Prepare technical presentations and documentation of your work.
• Document and communicate your work to peers and customers through informal forums as well as potentially in conference and journal publications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of related experience.
• Spacecraft flight dynamics and navigation experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication to effectively communicate with missions, team members and management at the appropriate technical level.
• Demonstrated ability to be self-motivated and able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Obtain successful completion of a government background check.
• US citizenship.

 

Desired Background:

• Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field.
• Experience with satellite navigation systems, measurements, and processing techniques.
• Experience with FreeFlyer, EMTG, Copernicus, STK, GMAT, Raptor, ODTK, or other flight dynamics tools.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket or similar productivity/organization tools.
• Experience with MATLAB.
• Experience with Python.
• Ability to quickly connect in-person and in writing, and to actively listen and perceive the needs, values or opinions of others.
• Proactivity in identifying and addressing challenges to include innovations that result in positive organizational impact.
• Demonstrated leadership accomplishments professionally and personally.

 

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