Head of AOCS/GNC Engineering

Head of AOCS/GNC Engineering

Lúnasa Space

United Kingdom

Job summary:

We are looking for an experienced, confident leader who has held a senior position before and displays a strong balance of technical acumen, management skills, and stakeholder management skills. As a Head of AOCS/GNC Engineering, the role and responsibilities are as below. For the AOCS/GNC, at the beginning, you will strongly support the AOCS and GNC subsystem Leads that are people from your Team assigned to the program.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Supervising the output from their Team to reach defined objectives;
• Interfacing between the Executive Management and their Team;
• Allocating teams and resources to Programs and internal activities;
• Defining and bidding for funding opportunities to support internal activities;
• Be involved with hiring, onboarding, and developing new staff;
• Defining and developing internal technologies and technical building blocks within the domain;
• Establishing roadmaps, and maximising opportunities to follow them within funding opportunities.

Essential Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in AOCS and GNC;
• Deep understanding of AOCS/GNC algorithm design e.g. navigation filters, guidance strategies and controllers;
• Experience designing fault-tolerant AOCS and GNC systems e.g. fault-tolerant algorithm/software design;
• Knowledge and experience of AOCS/GNC rendezvous and pose estimation sensors, actuators, and methods;
• Experience of satellite trajectory design and analysis e.g. walking safety ellipses, passively safe trajectories, abort manoeuvres and collision avoidance manoeuvres;
• Experience of AOCS and GNC hardware integration and test planning, as well as rapid prototyping of Hardware-in-the-loop systems;
• Experience with software packages commonly used e.g. MATLAB/Simulink and Python;
• Experience of programming in C/C++;
• Demonstrates excellent leadership experience;
• Be able to work in a start-up environment;
• Excellent technical communications skills (written/verbal).

Education and work experience:

• The ideal candidate must have a relevant degree in Engineering disciplines.

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