Motive Workforce is partnering with a Los Angeles-based spacecraft technology company developing advanced, purpose-built spacecraft and mission solutions for commercial, scientific, and national security applications.
We are seeking an experienced Spacecraft Flight Dynamics Engineer to join the flight program team. This role is highly hands-on and will support spacecraft from design and simulation through hardware integration, testing, and live on-orbit operations.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience across spacecraft flight dynamics, attitude determination and control, guidance and navigation, propulsion, simulation, and real-time flight operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical integration, interface development, vendor coordination, and performance requirements for ADCS, propulsion systems, and GNC hardware.
- Develop high-fidelity flight dynamics models for trajectory analysis, momentum management, maneuver planning, and propellant budgeting.
- Develop and tune control laws for spacecraft pointing, detumbling, momentum management, and station-keeping.
- Perform modeling and simulation using tools such as STK, Python, MATLAB, or comparable flight dynamics platforms.
- Work closely with Avionics, Flight Software, Systems Engineering, and AI&T teams to integrate and calibrate flight dynamics hardware within the spacecraft bus.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, spacecraft integration, and system-level verification activities.
- Transition spacecraft from design and simulation into live flight operations.
- Support on-console operations, including maneuver execution, anomaly investigation, troubleshooting, and recovery.
- Evaluate spacecraft performance and recommend improvements based on simulation, test, and on-orbit data.
- Maintain technical documentation covering system design, simulations, test results, interfaces, and spacecraft performance.
- Support compliance with applicable aerospace standards and regulatory requirements.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improvements in flight dynamics engineering processes.