GNC Engineer - Mission Analysis (m/f/d)

In this role you will lead mission analysis for upcoming launch missions, maintaining and improving a high-fidelity 6DoF/3DoF simulation environment and driving analysis-derived insights for flight readiness. You will collaborate with Propulsion, Structures, and Mission & Launch Operations to shape mission processes, develop automation, and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable simulation workflows. You will also contribute to regulatory analyses and act as the primary GNC interface to the MLO team, ensuring rigorous analysis traceability and impact-driven decisions.

• 30 days of vacation
• Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution
• Subsidised lunch
• Deutschlandticket public transport
• Sport clubs membership (EGYM Wellpass)
• Individual learning allowance

• Lead mission analysis activities for launch missions, including performance assessment and trajectory evaluation
• Own technical data interfaces with cross-disciplinary teams (Propulsion, Structures, MLO)
• Develop, run, and analyze Monte Carlo simulations for performance, robustness, and success probability
• Maintain and extend 6DoF/3DoF simulation environments with traceable results
• Support trajectory design and optimization using high-fidelity and reduced-order tools
• Build automated analysis pipelines, reports, and post-processing frameworks
• Design and maintain unit/integration tests within CI/CD workflows
• Contribute to regulatory and flight licensing analysis documentation
• Own payload controller functionality and serve as the GNC interface to MLO
• Improve mission analysis methodologies, processes, and documentation standards

• Master’s degree or PhD in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics or similar
• Minimum 3 years in mathematical modelling and development/verification of GNC algorithms
• Strong MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow/autocoding background
• Experience with orbital vehicle mission analysis
• Proficiency with ASTOS or similar trajectory optimization tools
• Python data analysis (frequency and time domain)
• C/C++ flight software development
• Knowledge of rigid and elastic body dynamics and orbit mechanics
• Experience with large software projects using Git
• Experience with Jira or similar project management tools
• Fluent in English

• Strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Analytical mindset with attention to traceability and documentation
• Ownership mindset and decision-making under uncertainty
• MATLAB
• Simulink
• Stateflow