GNC Engineer

Thales

Turin, Italy

We are looking for aGuidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineering for the Attitud and Orbit Control Subsystem (AOCS).

Key duties:

Contribute to the AOCS related design, development and verification:

  • Derivation of the pointing requirements from the System specification;
  • Requirements allocation to the GNC functions, sensors and actuators;
  • Definition of the AOCS architecture (configuration, operative mode logic);
  • Definition and development of the GNC algorithms;
  • Perform stability and robustness analysis of the controller;
  • Production of technical documentation: Design Report, Pointing Budget, Performance Analysis and Evaluation Report, contribution to other AOCS and System budgets;
  • Development of GNC simulator in Matlab, Simulink environment.

Skills, experience and qualifications required:

At least 5 years of technical knowledge in the following areas:

  • Guidance Navigation and Control discipline;
  • Automatic Control Theory with focus on digital innovative controls (MPC, H¥, Robust control);
  • Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem architecture;
  • Flight Dynamics;
  • AOCS sensors and actuators;
  • Mission analysis (Orbital definitions);
  • Space environment;
  • Matlab, LabView ,“C” and “C++”, programming language;
  • Required Engineering Master Degree in Aerospace or Electronics engineering, or Physics;
  • Mandatory previous experience in Entry, Descent and Landing GNC design, development, validation and verification in engineering simulation environment and Hardware-in-the-loop facilities, applied to Moon missions;
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office package;
  • Good attitude towards analysis, synthesis and problem solving;
  • Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written);
  • Good Knowledge of Italian is appreciated;
  • Available to work in shifts if requested by the program;
  • Good attitude towards teaming and multi-disciplinary approaches;
  • Good attitude towards negotiations with Space Agencies and Subcontractors;
  • Available to support frequent travels and collocations abroad.

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