GNC Engineer

Job description

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate. We are looking for a Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineering for the Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem (AOCS) Key duties: Contribute to the AOCS related design, development and verification: - Derivation of the pointing requirements from the System specification - Requirements allocation to the GNC functions, sensors and actuators. - Definition of the AOCS architecture (configuration, operative mode logic). - Definition and development of the GNC algorithms. - Perform stability and robustness analysis of the controller - Production of technical documentation: Design Report, Pointing Budget, Performance Analysis and Evaluation Report, contrib...