Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer II

As a Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer II, you will perform tracking, navigation, maneuver, trajectory planning, and collision avoidance design and operations for Earth orbiting, lunar, and interplanetary missions. You will develop ground scripting in Python to automate these flight dynamics processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Space Systems, or Software Engineering, or an equivalent Engineering or Applied Physics degree
• 8+ years of work experience in mission design, flight dynamics
• An advanced understanding of orbital mechanics
• Orbit determination theory
• Mission analysis with STK, Astrogator, GMAT, Monte, Copernicus, or equivalent
• Orbit determination analysis with ODTK, Orekit, or equivalent
• Python software development
• Git version control, or an equivalent version control system
• Jira software project management or equivalent
• Active DoD US Government Secret Security Clearance or, ability to obtain and maintain one
• U.S. citizenship is required, due to program requirements

Benefits

• Top tier medical HMO, PPO & a 100% company-sponsored medical HSA plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 5 days sick leave per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Flexible spending and dependent care savings accounts
• Paid parental leave
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan with company match