Sr. Trajectory Design Engineer

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Overview:

The Mission Analysis and Trajectory Design Engineer helps support the development, integration, and testing of flight mechanics simulations for NASA’s SLS/ARTEMIS program, NASA’s HLS program, and other smaller NASA projects. This position will require a well-rounded background of flight dynamics modelling skills, experience with computer programming, and the desire to perform high fidelity analyses to help optimize and integrate inputs for the flight dynamics of the Artemis mission.

Description:

The Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) team is a high performing group executing challenging tasks to design and integrate GN&C systems for NASA projects ranging from NASA’s Space Launch System(SLS) to NASA’s Human Lander System. We are searching for highly qualified candidates to support NASA’s Flight Dynamics Team in the Guidance, Navigation, & Mission Analysis branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. This exciting work will serve as a critical step in sending humans back to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

ASED offers a partnership in which you can grow personally and professionally within a framework of strong leadership, competitive compensation, and rewarding career paths. Come join our team!

Job Functions:

• Analysis of launch vehicle and spacecraft, dynamics, equations of motion, and trajectories to assess performance of spacecraft trajectories, mission analysis, and related studies
  
• Modeling ascent and in-space environments, errors, disturbances, GN&C algorithms, sensors, actuators, and mechanisms
  
• Simulate and analyze nominal, contingency, and failure scenarios during ascent and in-space flight
  
• Develop algorithms and tools to analyze 3 DOF trajectories using Monte Carlo techniques
  
• Perform studies and insight analysis for NASA’s HLS program
  
• Execute/modify existing software/scripts in C, Python, C++
  

Duties
Day to day activities include:

• Dynamic modeling of 3 and 6 DOF single body systems
• Mission design and analysis
• Trajectory design analysis
• Creating, editing and debugging software written in C, Python, Matlab, Fortran, and C++.
• Optimization and im