GNC Engineer - Mission Analysis

GNC Engineer - Mission Analysis

Isar Aerospace

Ottobrunn, Germany

As part of the Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) team, you will lead mission analysis activities for upcoming flights and play a key role in ensuring mission success from early design through flight operations. You will be responsible for maintaining, utilizing, and continuously improving the company's high-fidelity 6DoF simulation environment, which serves as the primary tool for trajectory, performance, and mission analyses. In addition, you will shape and enhance mission analysis processes, develop supporting tools and automation, and contribute to a robust CI/CD framework that enables efficient and reliable simulation and verification workflows.

Your Role in Our Space Mission

• Lead mission analysis activities for upcoming launch missions, including performance assessment, trajectory evaluation, and flight readiness analyses
• Own and manage the technical data interfaces with multidisciplinary teams, including Propulsion, Structures, and Mission & Launch Operations (MLO)
• Develop, execute, and analyze Monte Carlo simulations to assess vehicle performance, robustness, and mission success probabilities
• Maintain, improve, and extend the 6DoF and 3DoF simulation environments, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and traceability of analysis results
• Support mission-specific trajectory design and optimization efforts using both high-fidelity and reduced-order simulation tools
• Develop and maintain automated analysis pipelines, report generation tools, and post-processing frameworks
• Design, implement, and maintain unit and integration tests to support automated verification within the CI/CD toolchain
• Lead mission analysis contributions to regulatory and flight licensing activities, including preparation of required analysis documentation
• Own the payload controller functionality and serve as the primary GNC interface to the Mission & Launch Operations team
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of mission analysis methodologies, processes, and documentation standards across the organization

Qualification Checklist

• Master’s degree or PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics or similar
• At least 3 years of experience in mathematical modelling, development, validation and verification of algorithms throughout the disciplines of Guidance, Navigation and Control
• Strong background in mathematical modelling and data analysis in MATLAB and all relevant Tools (Simulink, Stateflow, autocoding etc.)
• Strong background in Mission Analysis for orbital vehicles
• Experience with ASTOS or similar trajectory optimization tools
• Proficient in data analysis in frequency and time domain with Python
• Experience in C/C++ flight software development
• Proficient in rigid and elastic body dynamics and Orbit mechanics
• Experience with large software projects in GIT
• Experience with project management tools like Jira
• Fluent in English

Bonus Skills

• Maintain and drive a high standard of technical documentation
• Able to formulate technical requirements
• Take responsibility for technical decisions