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Guidance Navigation and Controls Engineer

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El Segundo, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/28/2026
Company:

The Boeing Company

Job Summary

The Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GNC) Team delivers the GNC subsystem for a

program and/or constellation. This includes subsystem/system level analysis to ensure

requirements compliance, sensor and actuator selection, and Flight Control Software

(FCSW) development and validation. Engineers in the GNC group are integral throughout

the entire program lifecycle, providing mission and system design inputs, critical analysis

products, software/algorithm development, support to satellite integration and test (I&T),

and on-console support for on-orbit operations.

As a GNC engineer at Millennium, you will support one or more of our programs in

developing and verifying the GNC subsystem. Engineers on this team possess strong

fundamentals in control theory, MATLAB/Simulink, rotational and translation dynamics,

and spacecraft GNC hardware. Our engineers demonstrate initiative in working through

technical issues, and collaborate with the senior members of the team to ensure quality.

This position's internal job code is Guidance, Nav & Controls Engr. Our team is currently

hiring for Levels 1-2.

Responsibilities

Deliver the GNC subsystem (hardware, software, and analysis) for a satellite

program

Perform GNC subsystem design, analysis, software development, and component

selection to meet program requirements

Support the development of GNC products

Interface with other satellite subsystems as well as mission/systems engineering

and program management to ensure system-level performance

Collaborate with a team of GNC engineers in support of a program, including

decomposition and delegation of tasks

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline

Strong GNC fundamentals and spacecraft system level knowledge

Ability to perform complex GNC system analyses of kinematics, dynamics, and

control systems using existing and/or self-developed tools

Ability to work independently to complete tasks

Ability to support activities (e.g. integration and test, mission operations) during offnominal hours when required

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the

U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline

Experience with spacecraft GNC design/analysis/test

Experience with spacecraft GNC sensors and actuators (e.g. star trackers,

rate/accel/magnetic field measurement devices, momentum exchange devices,

etc.)

System level software integration and test experience

Satellite integration and test and on-orbit operations experience

Strong understanding of classical and modern control theory, system-level trade

studies, architecture development, and systems integration & analysis

Active TS/SCI clearance

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Export Control Requirement:

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a "U.S. Person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

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