Senior GNC/AOCS Systems Engineer

Team: Global Design

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Commitment: Full-time (Regular)

Workplace Type: hybrid

Key responsibilities

• Support the definition of a “product baseline”, creating standard requirements, system architecture, ICDs, design and analysis goals, test plans and operations concepts.

• Perform system level trade-offs, coordinating inputs from various disciplines within the team, to evaluate any proposed changes of the design baseline to satisfy the need of each individual mission.

• Take ownership of the technical budgets, such as mass, propellant budget, pointing/landing accuracy for spacecraft performance.

• Ensure internal interfaces between various spacecraft subsystems are maintained.

• Contribute to requirements management ensuring all requirements are closed-out at the planned project landmarks.

• Contribute to risk assessments during the spacecraft development and support the Project Manager in defining risk mitigation plans

• Support AIT/Flight&Test Operations Groups and subsystem leads in defining test plans and specifications which will successfully verify the spacecraft design.

• Coordinate efforts between relevant subsystems and Operations Team in defining a spacecraft operational concept.

• Contribute to the maintenance of our Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and the integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years of experience in at least two of the following: design, implementation, integration, V&V or operations of GNC (AOCS) subsystem

• Experience with programming languages such as Matlab, Python, or equivalent

• Self-motivated and comfortable making key decisions within a fast-paced environment

• High sense of accountability and ownership

• Excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written. Enthusiastic attitude and team player

• Working level in English

Preferred skills

• Experience with design, analysis or testing of at least one other subsystem: Structure, Thermal, Avionics, Propulsion, Communications, On-board software.

• Experience with requirement decomposition (mission all the way to unit level)

• Experience performing FMECA, reliability analysis, and/or hazard analysis

• Experience with system level testing such as hardware-in-the-loop testing

• Experience with spacecraft operations

• Working level Japanese