GNC Generalist
Careers | AstroForgeCalifornia, United States
Posted September 3, 2025
120000 - 160000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
AstroForge is a startup that mines asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than current terrestrial mining methods.
Job Description
As a GNC engineer at AstroForge, you'll own a large part of the flight algorithms powering the world's first asteroid mining vehicles. You'll be part of a talented team of engineers to develop, analyze, and test vehicle algorithms and software for reliable, fault-tolerant flight.
Requirements
- Design, implement, and test innovative guidance, navigation, control, and perception algorithms in flight software for highly autonomous deep space missions
- Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation
- Help push flight software to the edge in Monte Carlo and Hardware-in-the-loop testing and contribute fixes and performance improvements
- Review algorithms and software contributed by GNC / flight software engineers
Benefits
- 100% paid medical, dental, and life insurance coverage
- Vision and FSA benefits available
- 3 weeks of PTO + 1 week of sick time
- 10 paid holidays
- Retirement savings plan – 401(k), with company match
- Equity on the ground floor of a startup
