Working Student - Guidance, Navigation & Control (m/f/d)

Your Mission

As a working student for the Technical Team, your mission is to advance the Guidance, Navigation & Control algorithms onboard Spectrum’s Avionics, with a special focus on reusability scenarios. Drawing upon your academic expertise and innovative mindset, you will advance a GNC system for the purpose of an ongoing development program. 

More specifically, you will:

• Keep up with and report industry trends related to reusability  
• Advance the GNC system in terms of onboard trajectory optimization and control & navigation algorithms
• Document your progress
• Communicate with other teams with respect to requirements and results
• Perform Monte-Carlo analyses
• Support integrated test across different departments

Who you are and what you have

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics or similar experience
• Currently enrolled in a corresponding master’s degree
• Experience in development and validation of algorithms in the field of Guidance, Navigation and Control
• Strong background in mathematical modelling and data analysis in MATLAB and all relevant Tools (Simulink, Stateflow, autocoding etc.) 
• Proficiency in data analysis in frequency and time domain
• Experience in C/C++ flight software development   
• Take ownership and accountability for your own actions and mistakes
• Can-do attitude and outstanding communication skills
• Fluent in English and German

Nice to Have

• Participated actively in a rocketry working student group
• Knowledge about optimization problems
• Hands-on / test experience
• Knowledge about GIT version control

Benefits

• Subsidised lunch
• Sport Clubs membership
• Public transport ticket
• Flexible working hours
• Referral Bonus
• Free snacks and drinks
• Break area with fully equipped kitchen
• Regular team events
• Corporate Benefits

Who we are

We are Isar Aerospace and we are at the forefront of New Space building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space.

Our mission is to help democratise space and use it for good in order to improve life on Earth now and for the future generations.

We are a fast-growing company aiming to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. The company is privately funded by world-leading technology investors with strong commitment and support and our team is made of driven and talented people with a real passion for space innovation.

We're making rockets in a way that hasn't been done before disrupting a traditional industry. If you are up for the challenge, want to work on cutting-edge projects and be part of a team changing the world for better, come, join us and launch your career!

Want to find out more about us?

Visit www.isaraerospace.com