Engineering Manager, Attitude Estimation and Calibration
AI summary of the role
Provide technical and strategic guidance and mentoring to the Attitude Estimation and Calibration section
What you’ll do
- Perform spacecraft and payload control system tasks including concept development, trade studies, risk assessments, design analyses, simulation development, test planning, data analysis, operations support, and anomaly resolution
- Coordinate technical activities, report progress, resolve technical issues, and assure project success with section staff, management, and customers
- Promote creation and use of new tools to sustain and advance section and department expertise
- Identify opportunities for additional, expanded, and new business; recommend staffing needs and improvements
What you’ll bring
- Graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related STEM field with focus on controls, dynamics, estimation, or related specialty
- Expertise in spacecraft control systems engineering, control system design and analysis, estimation theory, or advanced dynamics
- 5+ years of increasingly responsible professional engineering experience
- Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or related language
Technologies
MATLAB · Simulink · Python · Kalman filtering · spacecraft attitude control · estimation theory · control system design · modeling and simulation · multibody dynamics · flexible body dynamics
About The Aerospace Corporation
Independent nonprofit FFRDC delivering objective systems engineering, mission assurance, R&D, and integration for U.S. national-security, civil, and commercial space programs.
Bootstrapped · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
pointing, while also researching and applying methods from emerging and related topics such as artificial intelligence and robotics, to solve new and increasingly challenging problems. We are looking for a Section Manager in CAD to lead a small team of engineers within the department, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to support all phases of a program lifecycle: conceptual studies, prototyping, source selection, development, and operations. This is a full-time position based in El Segundo, CA., requiring 4-5 days onsite per week. What You’ll Be Doing Providing technical and strategic guidance and mentoring to the members of the Attitude Estimation and Calibration section of CAD Performing spacecraft and payload control system related tasks in the following areas: concept development, trade studies, risk assessments, design analyses, simulation development,How jobs are selected
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