K2 Space
Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer
$110K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted May 11, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles - Visa sponsorship
- Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Develop and validate guidance, navigation, and control systems, algorithms, simulations, and flight software for satellite mechanisms and large flexible spacecraft structures.
What you'll do
- Develop pointing and slewing algorithms for large flexible structures and mechanisms, including disturbance and jitter rejection.
- Build simulation and modeling tools for vehicle and GNC trade studies, including mission design, controls analysis, and 6-DOF simulation.
- Own mechanism GNC verification and validation, support flight readiness and on-orbit operations, and contribute to GNC flight software.
What they ask for
- Experience with GNC actuator or sensor sizing, selection, and system design.
- Experience implementing control and/or estimation algorithms.
- Experience verifying and validating GNC flight software in an integrated environment using 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing.
- Experience using Python, Julia, C/C++, or Matlab for algorithm development, implementation, and simulation.
Nice to have
- Experience with early-stage conceptual or “clean sheet” design.
- Experience with control algorithm development, actuator sizing and implementation, Extended Kalman Filters, or trajectory analysis and mission design.
Pay
$110,000 - $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Julia, C/C++, Matlab, 6-DOF simulation, HITL
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