GNC/AOCS Engineer for Space Missions

Are you looking for an innovative and consolidated place for your professional development? GMV is an experienced technology group and we are expanding our teams and looking for a junior engineer to join our Guidance, Navigation, and Control/Attitude and Orbit Control System team. The position is centred in the activities of Space Mission Analysis, and GNC/AOCS design, development, verification and validation, at its premises in Lisbon, Portugal.

The successful candidate will be introduced into a dynamic and cooperative team and is expected to share the same passion for the space field as our GNC team. We´ll get to the point; we'll tell you what's not on the web. If you want to know more about us go to GMV website.

WHAT CHALLENGE WILL YOU BE TAKING ON?

For this particular position, the candidate will be initially inserted in the GNC division in the Future Missions section where he/she will have the opportunity to:

• Work on mission design phases of real ESA missions performing GNC subsystem design, mission analysis, trajectory design, and feasibility studies.
• Design, Development, Verification & Validation of Navigation, Guidance, and Control algorithms for ESA missions.
• Work on the definition of ground operational timeline and study of the respective navigation performance (orbit determination) and their impact on the mission feasibility or required GNC autonomy.
• Development of mission analysis, feasibility studies, and analysis tools for ESA.

WHAT DO WE NEED IN OUR TEAM?

The candidate shall possess the eagerness and motivation to learn and develop inside the organization working with some of the leading experts in space field at the European level, mostly but not exclusively, in projects for the European Space Agency (ESA). We require the following to be considered for this role:

• MSc in Aerospace Engineering or similar field.
• Fluency in written and oral English.

You'll be even more successful in this role, if you can bring knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Any number of years previous working experience in the field Astrodynamics, orbital and attitude mechanics.
• Estimation and filtering techniques
• Statistical and probabilistic analysis
• Space vehicle AOCS/GNC
• Software Engineering / C Programming
• High-level Programming / Model-Based Algorithm Development (MATLAB, Python, or Simulink)

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• Hybrid working model and 8 weeks per year of teleworking outside your usual geographical area.
• Flexible start and finish times, and intensive working hours Fridays and in summer.
• Personalized career plan development, training and language learning support.
• National and international mobility. Do you come from another country? We can offer you a relocation package.
• Competitive compensation with ongoing reviews, flexible compensation and discount on brands.
• Wellbeing program: Health, dental and accident insurance; free fruit and coffee, physical, mental and financial health training, and much more!

⚠️ In our recruitment processes you will always have telephone and personal contact, face-to-face or online, with our talent acquisition team. In addition, bank transfers and bank cards will never be requested. If you are contacted through any other process, please write to our team at privacy@gmv.com

❤️We promote equal opportunities in recruitment, and we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

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If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Nina Miller, in charge of this vacancy.