About this job

Sigma Aviation Services is currently looking for an experienced Senior GNC Engineer to join our client based in Spain. 
The candidate should be willing to relocate to Spain if living in another EU country. 
If you meet the requirements and would like to know more about this role then please send your most recently updated CV to Emilia at earellano@sigmaaviationservices.com

Responsibilities

• Perform trajectory design, optimization, and dispersion for suborbital and orbital launch vehicles.
• Development of 6-DOF launch vehicle and spacecraft dynamics simulators.
• Perform aerodynamic characterization of aerospace vehicles.
• Contribute to flight safety analysis, safety corridors, IIPs.
• Interaction with other subsystems and systems engineers for trajectory optimization.
• Contribution to launch licensing according to international regulations.
• Provide inputs for flight hardware (structural and propulsion components).
• Pre-flight / post-flight data processing and correlation with simulations and tests.
• Software verification via testing with flight-software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop.

Profile

• Master’s degree in Aerospace engineering, Space exploration or flight mechanics, or GNC.
• 7+ years’ experience with Matlab/Simulink.
• 7+ years’ experience with flight simulation programs (rocket trajectories) and orbital mechanics.
• Knowledge of Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software.
• Experience with space Launch Vehicle trajectory simulations (suborbital or orbital) and with the use of ASTOS, STK or similar software.
•  English speaking EU applicants