Sr. Principal Engineer

Overview:

Serve as a professional authority in one engineering discipline or specialty area. Collaborate in preliminary and advanced design studies and prepare portions of engineering proposals. Conceive and develop solutions to analytical, design, and test problems that program(s) experience. Aid in establishing systems philosophy and design objectives. Analyze and resolve failures in test and service, sometimes without recourse to intense theoretical studies and test programs. Assure continuity of design features from advanced design through contract completion. Write major portions of complex
specifications and engineering reports as a result of advance studies, special engineering investigations, and similar activities. Develop aspects of new theory and design criteria for general application. May lead subsystem design team within project to include technical, cost and responsibility for assigned subsystem.Technical Requirements:

Experience with guidance, navigation, and control for rendezvous, relative navigation and guidance, proximity operations (proxops), and formation flying. Able to: design/analyze control system concepts including evaluating system requirements & deriving subsystem requirements; develop subsystem specifications and error budgets; independently design control modes, control loops, and Kalman filters; perform GNC trades and analyze performance capabilities. Familiar with application of spacecraft sensors and actuators including LIDAR and GPS. Familiarity with space station rendezvous approaches a plus

* Detailed knowledge of spacecraft attitude control system design
* Working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink analysis tools, C/C++, and MS Office products
* Good communication skills