About this role
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
GNC ENGINEER, SATELLITE POWER SYSTEMS
At SpaceX we’re leveraging our experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink, the world’s most advanced broadband internet system. Starlink is the world’s largest satellite constellation and is providing fast, reliable internet to 10M+ users worldwide. We design, build, test, and operate all parts of the system – thousands of satellites, consumer receivers that allow users to connect within minutes of unboxing, and the software that brings it all together. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of Starlink’s potential global impact and are looking for best-in-class engineers to help maximize Starlink’s utility for communities and businesses around the globe.
As a Satellite Power Systems on the Starlink Guidance, Navigation, and Control team (GNC), a new set of physics and the associated trade space of modeling decisions that affect simulation architecture and performance. This is not just an analysis role – you will be responsible for vehicle design trades, simulation, flight code implementation, and ultimately deploying and operating your features in space.
Come help us fly the world's largest constellation and make high speed internet available everywhere, all the time.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain control systems for the flow of electrical power flow on our Starlink satellites.
• Improve insight into the health and performance of Starlink electrical power systems by developing ground-based or on-vehicle estimation schemes and summarizing fleet-wide information relayed to the ground.
• Dig deep into data from satellites tom identify anomalous system or algorithm behavior.
• Invent schemes to shield the vehicle from dangerous operation and shield algorithms from corruption.
• Interface with a diverse team – software, reliability, and satellite operations.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, physics, computer science or other STEM discipline.
• Professional experience with one of the following coding languages; C/C++, Python, Java.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• Master's degree or PhD in physics or an engineering discipline.
• Very strong expertise and demonstrated project or professional experience in linear closed loop controls analysis and design, including state space and frequency domain methods.
• Experience with flexible body dynamics and reduced finite element models thereof in the context of closed loop control systems analysis.
• Expertise in state estimation, kalman filters, or recursive least squares
• Experience in control systems and estimation.
• Strong expertise in embedded C++, Python, MATLAB, Simul