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About the Role

ispace is seeking a Senior GNC Systems Engineer to design and develop lunar landers and other transportation and/or communication/navigation platforms. This role is crucial for ispace’s plans to perform resource prospecting on the moon, contributing to the detailed design and qualification of their first missions.

Responsibilities

• Support the definition of a “product baseline”, creating standard requirements, system architecture, ICDs, design and analysis goals, test plans and operations concepts.
• Perform system level trade-offs, coordinating inputs from various disciplines within the team, to evaluate any proposed changes of the design baseline to satisfy the need of each individual mission.
• Take ownership of the technical budgets, such as mass, propellant budget, pointing/landing accuracy for spacecraft performance.
• Ensure internal interfaces between various spacecraft subsystems are maintained.
• Contribute to requirements management ensuring all requirements are closed-out at the planned project landmarks.
• Contribute to risk assessments during the spacecraft development and support the Project Manager in defining risk mitigation plans.
• Support AIT/Flight&Test Operations Groups and subsystem leads in defining test plans and specifications which will successfully verify the spacecraft design.
• Coordinate efforts between relevant subsystems and Operations Team in defining a spacecraft operational concept.
• Contribute to the maintenance of our Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and the integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in at least two of the following: design, implementation, integration, V&V or operations of GNC (AOCS) subsystem
• Experience with programming languages such as Matlab, Python, or equivalent
• Self-motivated and comfortable making key decisions within a fast-paced environment
• High sense of accountability and ownership
• Excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written.
• Enthusiastic attitude and team player
• Working level in English
• Candidates currently in Japan with valid working visa are prioritized.
• For overseas candidates, relocation to Japan is required upon acceptance of the position.

Skills

• GNC (AOCS) design, implementation, integration, V&V and operations
• System engineering disciplines for spacecraft design
• Demonstrated "hands-on" experience in engineering domains
• Interdisciplinary experience
• Experience with design, analysis or testing of at least one other subsystem: Structure, Thermal, Avionics, Propulsion, Communications, On-board software.
• Experience with requirement decomposition (mission all the way to unit level)
• Experience performing FMECA, reliability analysis, and/or hazard analysis
• Experience with system level testing such as hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Experience with spacecraft operations
• Working level Japanese

Location

• Japan

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor or Masters degree

Salary/Compensations

• Compensation will be provided in JPY and aligned with local market benchmarks in Japan, based on the role’s level, scope, and prevailing industry standards.

About the Company

• ispace is a company focused on lunar exploration and resource prospecting.