GNC Engineer - Flight Software Development (C++) (m/f/d)

Overview

Mission Brief Join our Flight Software team and help define how a launch vehicle behaves throughout all phases of flight. This role sits at the intersection of Guidance, Navigation & Control, flight dynamics, mission analysis, simulation and flight software, turning engineering insight into robust C++ and Python implementations that can be tested, verified and flown. Your Role in Our Space Mission

What you'll do

• Mission Brief Join our Flight Software team and help define how a launch vehicle behaves throughout all phases of flight.
• This role sits at the intersection of Guidance, Navigation & Control, flight dynamics, mission analysis, simulation and flight software, turning engineering insight into robust C++ and Python implementations that can be tested, verified and flown.
• Your Role in Our Space Mission Develop, improve and verify GNC algorithms for launch vehicle applications.
• Contribute to guidance strategy, navigation solutions and vehicle control techniques.
• Support trajectory design, mission analysis and flight performance assessment.
• Develop and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments for design, development and verification.
• Model vehicle dynamics, environmental effects, sensors, actuators and subsystem interactions.
• Implement and integrate GNC algorithms within production flight software.
• Create analysis, testing and automation tools using C++, Python and MATLAB.
• Investigate anomalies and unexpected behaviour in simulation, testing and flight operations, driving issues to root cause.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Flight Software.
• Relevant academic or project background for a GNC Engineer - Flight Software Development (C++) (m/f/d) role.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Ottobrunn, Bavaria; Parsdorf, Bavaria.

Skills