Flight Dynamics Engineer III (Trajectory), Elytra
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Subscribe to our RSS feeds to receive instant updates as new positions become available. > --> --> Back To Openings Flight Dynamics Engineer III (Trajectory), Elytra Department: Aerospace Software Engineering Location: Cedar Park, TX START YOUR APPLICATION ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing.
Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space. As a Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer specializing in trajectory and maneuver design at Firefly, you will design and optimize spacecraft trajectories and maneuver sequences for operational missions spanning LEO and cislunar space. In this role, you will develop targeting algorithms, create error budgets, and serve as a flight dynamics operator while collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate mission designs into executable operations.
What you'll do
- Optimize spacecraft trajectories to satisfy mission
- Firefly offers outstanding
What you'll bring
- while balancing delta-V budgets, mission duration, and payload constraints
- Design and maintain mission designs from the conceptual phase through the end of spacecraft mission operations
- Develop algorithms to target maneuvers that achieve spacecraft mission objectives
- Create maneuver error budgets and perform sensitivity analysis to assess robustness to execution uncertainties
- Formulate and analyze contingency maneuver plans and abort scenarios for off-nominal conditions
- Interface with cross-discipline teams to translate maneuver plans into executable command sequences and operational procedures
- Serve as a flight dynamics operator for spacecraft missions and perform maneuver reconstruction to improve spacecraft models
- Perform verification and validation of flight dynamics models and software using analytical solutions, benchmarks, flight data, and unit tests
- Author technical documentation and analysis reports that communicate flight dynamics concepts and results to diverse audiences
- Required
Benefits
- for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.
- Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.
- citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.
- , protected individual as defined by 8 U.
- 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.
About the employer
Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and
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