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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