Principal Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer
Voyager Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
What you will do
- Lead efforts to raise existing GNC analysis, modeling, and algorithm fidelity to industry best practices and mission‑critical standards.
- Advance guidance, navigation, and control algorithms by introducing state‑of‑the‑art methods in state estimation, sensor fusion, trajectory generation, optical navigation, and terrain‑based navigation.
- Modernize and expand high‑fidelity simulation environments for algorithm verification, Monte Carlo testing, mission analysis, and performance evaluation.
- Develop and validate improved navigation and control strategies for descent, landing, attitude control, and autonomous operations.
- Conduct comprehensive trade studies evaluating sensors, estimation approaches, trajectory strategies, and control architectures, providing clear recommendations backed by rigorous analysis.
- Provide senior technical leadership across Lunar Systems, shaping mission concepts, technology roadmaps, and long‑term GNC capability development.