Systems Engineer, Spacecraft Operations (RPO)Posted today$167K
The opportunity
Anduril's Space team is expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U. S.
What you'll do
Design and own RPO mission plans: relative motion design, approach and: hold-point sequencing, delta-V budgets, and the timeline that ties them to comm passes, lighting, and ground contact
Build passive safety into every approach, so that a missed burn, a dropped: pass, or an off- nominal state doesn't put the vehicle on a collision trajectory
Author the flight rules and procedures that govern close approach: keep-out: volume enforcement, go/no-go gates, abort and breakout criteria, custody handoffs, and conjunction screening against both the target and third parties
Own the mission operations plans and procedures for spacecraft programs: across all phases, including LEOP, commissioning, on-orbit checkout, and operations
Drive the pre-launch campaign from the ops side: write and run: day-in-the-life and mission rehearsals, inject the failures, and turn every finding into a procedure change or a design change
Work with AI&T as the operations voice, validating procedures and command: sequences on flatsats and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds before they touch flight hardware
What they're looking for
- Experience on on-orbit servicing, inspection, docking, or refueling missions
- Experience with autonomous or onboard relative navigation, including vision-based or optical relative nav
- Flight dynamics depth: orbit determination, maneuver calibration, and maneuver reconstruction
- Experience with conjunction assessment and space traffic coordination
- Experience operating government, DoD, or IC spacecraft
- Experience with STK/Astrogator, ODTK, MATLAB, or Simulink
- Experience with Python and Linux systems
- Experience with testing and validation on flatsats and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds