GNC Engineer I at Inversion in Los Angeles, CA

Summary: Inversion is focused on creating a transportation layer for Earth through innovative space technology. As a GNC Engineer I, you will support the development and validation of Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems for precise reentry flight, collaborating with senior engineers and contributing to flight algorithm development. Responsibilities: - Support development of tools used to review, process, and visualize test data - Support sensor and actuator model validation through analysis and correlation with test results - Contribute to unit testing and software quality efforts for GNC code - Support development and tuning of reentry flight algorithms - Build modeling and simulation capability needed to evaluate algorithm performance and iterate quickly - Work closely with flight software, test, and systems engineers to mature GNC architecture and implementation Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience - 1+ years of applicable internship, research, or professional experience developing and testing GNC algorithms, controls, or dynamic system models - Strong fundamental understanding of dynamics, estimation, and control - Proficiency in programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, or C++ for simulation and analysis - Experience with data analysis, scripting, and technical problem solving - Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills - Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related field - Experience with Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, or state estimation - Experience with sensor and actuator model validation or system identification - Experience writing unit tests or working in software quality workflows - Hardware in the Loop (HITL) or flight test data analysis experience - Experience deploying code to embedded or compute-restricted systems Required Skills: Guidance, Navigation, Control (GNC) algorithms, Dynamics, Estimation, Control, MATLAB, Python, C++, Data analysis, Scripting, Sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, Sensor, actuator model validation, Unit testing, Software quality workflows