Senior AOCS & GNC Engineer

Senior AOCS & GNC Engineer

D-Orbit

Lomazzo, Italy

You will contribute to all the AOCS design life-cycle starting from phase A/B up to the in-flight activities. These activities include, but are not limited to, supporting/leading AOCS S/S conception and design, beside to the support to all the AIV/AIT tasks.

Roles Duties:

• AOCS S/S conception and architectural tradeoff;
• AOCS S/S sizing definition and justification;
• AOCS S/S requirement flow-down from system and/or service specification;
• AOCS S/S Modes/Sub-Modes definition w.r.t the expected operative scenarios and FDIR management;
• Definition of FDIR strategies;
• GNC Algorithm implementation & verification;
• AOCS S/S V&V activities including performance assessment, SIL, PIL and HIL and all the related documentation;
• AOCS Modeling and performance analysis at System level;
• Supplier interface and technical authority for equipment’s scouting;
• VCD Management at S/S level.

Required Skills and Competences:

• Extensive knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink Environment;
• Principal architectures of AOCS S/S;
• Typical performance and assessment requested for AOCS design and verification;
• Typical performance parameters and assessment strategies to cope with requirement compliance (APE, AKE, etc.);
• Estimation Theory and practical implementation of related algorithms;
• Control Theory and practical implementation of related algorithms;
• ESA AOCS standard ECSS-E-ST-60;
• ESA Pointing Budget standard;
• Knowledge about the typical Sensors/Actuators and related GSE to be used during the design verification;
• Knowledge of Requirement traceability tool ( Jama, Codebeamer, etc.);
• Knowledge of Procurement Process (EQSR, TRR, QR).

The skill that are considered as plus for the current position are:

• Experience on SW Automatic Code Generation;
• Knowledge of lower level language (C, C++ ) and Python.

Education and Soft Skills:

• Master Degree in Aerospace or Control Engineering with a particular focus on Orbital and Attitude Dynamics and Control;
• At least 8 years of experience in AOCS relevant roles, with experience in technical management of resources;
• Fluent English knowledge, at least B2 level;
• Good attitude for teamwork;
• Positive attitude and communication with all the team the other company levels;
• Problem Solving attitude;
• Deep knowledge of AI tools.