About the Company

At AstroForge, our mission is to make space resources accessible on Earth. We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than current terrestrial mining methods. We offer a unique opportunity to join an exciting team looking to expand humanity’s capabilities in space. ‍

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. You should love to solve hard, multidisciplinary problems, be able to learn quickly, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative state estimation algorithms for deep space missions on a highly autonomous platform
• Develop dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation
• Help push flight software to the edge in Monte-Carlo testing and contribute fixes and performance improvements

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field
• 1-2 years experience (incl. internships, full time roles, or projects) with sensor fusion, filtering, or robotics modeling and simulation
• Demonstrated experience implementing and tuning filtering algorithms
• Well versed in linear algebra and 3D rotation math (rotation matrices, quaternions, MRPs)
• Capable of solving complex, novel problems with little to no supervision on schedule as an individual or as a member of an integrated team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work onsite in Huntington Beach, CA

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Python, C/C++, or Rust
• Experience implementing GNC algorithms into clean, performant, and easily testable flight software
• Experience across an autonomy stack, implementing or debugging controls, state estimation, perception, or path planning algorithms
• Demonstrated experience in a software engineering environment using software engineering best practices: version control, continuous integration, unit testing
• Demonstrated ability to build and test quickly when developing innovative technology
• Experience in a startup environment

Benefits

• Strong healthcare and life insurance coverage
• 2 weeks of PTO + 1 week of sick time
• Retirement savings plan – 401(k), with company match
• Office stipend to make your workspace your own
• Equity on the ground floor of a startup

Salary

• $100 - $140k

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