Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

• As a GNC/AOCS Engineer at Spire, you will operate as part of a technical team who maintains responsibility across the full lifecycle of the Spire GNC product and its subcomponents
• The GNC team interfaces directly with many engineering groups to conduct R&D, design, manufacturing, and operations activities, ultimately ensuring all current and future spacecraft systems satisfy their mission
• Ideal candidates will embrace the commercialization of nanosatellite systems and adapt to low-cost, fast-paced systems design, development, and implementation methodologies that set Spire apart from our competition
• In this fast-paced environment, the design to launch cycle is measured in weeks and months, not years
• Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight sensors, including magnetometers, sun sensors, inertial measurement devices, Earth sensors, and/or star trackers
• Design, evaluate, select, qualify and implement flight actuators, including magnetic torque elements, reaction wheels, and propulsion systems
• Design, implement and maintain simulation models for GNC subcomponents in our 6-DOF simulation environment
• Technical ownership of current and future GNC avionics peripherals, supporting troubleshooting, design and updates to improve reliability and performance
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and systems engineers, to integrate avionics solutions into the larger platform
• Develop component qualification and acceptance processes and be hands-on in laboratory and manufacturing environments

Benefits

• Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite.
• Family Leave: Family is important. Our parental and family leave is designed to let you make the most of those precious moments.
• Learning & development: Spire more than encourages and supports ongoing personal improvement and a growth mindset, we welcome it!
• Launch Attendance: One of the perks from launching satellites into space is that Spire often has VIP access to view the launch.
• Generous time off policy: Take the time you need. Our flexible time-off policy promotes a positive work-life balance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Our EAP makes sure you have access to support and counseling sessions whenever you need it.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP): Our ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase Spire shares through accumulated contributions.
• Fitness Reimbursement: Spire encourages fitness activity to promote employee well-being with reimbursed gym membership expenses.
• Employee Referral Program: Spire is always looking for outstanding people to join our team, and you can help and be awarded a referral bonus.
• Healthy snacks & beverages: To help our employees to be as productive as possible, we provide healthy snacks and beverages in each of our offices.

• Have experience working with external engineering contractors
• Have experience or familiarity with the Linux development environment
• Experience with actuators, including actuator sizing, modelling, design and integration
• Experience working hands-on with HW and familiarity with ‘hardware-in-the-loop` simulation
• Experience with flight sensors for spacecraft attitude determination/estimation
• A solid foundation in spacecraft attitude dynamics and control algorithms, with emphasis sensor ingestions and actuator command calculation
• Experience developing software using C/Python
• Experience writing flight software
• Experience designing and/or implementing Kalman filters and feedback control for attitude estimation
• Experience with spacecraft design
• Experience with C or C++ development for embedded systems
• Experience with spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing
• Experience with spacecraft operations and maintenance
• Experience identifying and resolving system anomalies
• Experience creating and maintaining integration and test campaigns for attitude determination and control systems, including hardware and software