Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer

Job description

Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer Department: Autonomous Systems: Employment Type: Full Time: Location: Boulder County: Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 / year Description: As a Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer at Impulse Space, you will lead the development and operational execution of flight dynamics capabilities across current and future programs. This role spans real-time mission support, automation of maneuver execution, trajectory development for new missions, and advancement of inertial navigation beyond LEO. You will work closely with Space Operations, Mission Design, GNC, and Software to make ambitious trajectories operationally executable. Responsibilities: - Support Space Operations in planning, analyzing, and executing nominal and novel orbital maneuvers - Automate maneuver planning and execution workflows to improve speed, reliability, and scalability - Build and maintain flight dynamics tools used daily by Space Ops (orbital propagation, targeting, orbital determination, covariance analysis, maneuver reconstruction) - Partner with Mission Design to develop and mature new trajectories for GEO, cislunar, and interplanetary missions - Contribute to development of inertial...