Graduate GNC Engineer

About Us

At CosmoChute, we are building modular, reusable lunar robotics infrastructure for long-duration planetary operations. Our systems combine mobility, modular payload deployment, survivability through lunar nights, and repair ability to make sustained presence on the Moon economically viable. We’re a deeply technical, fast-moving team that believes in real ownership, real trust and in creating an environment where your best work matters.

If you want to work on hardware that will one day operate on the moon, this is the role.

Your Role

We're looking for a Graduate GNC Engineer to join our core engineering team. This is an early-career role for someone with strong mathematical foundations, a curiosity for autonomous systems, and the drive to grow quickly in a technically demanding environment. You'll work directly alongside senior engineers on state estimation, control systems, and simulation, on a rover that has to navigate autonomously in an environment where GPS doesn't exist and the ground can't intervene in real time.

Your Responsibilities

• Support the development and testing of GNC algorithms for lunar surface navigation

• Assist with sensor fusion pipelines integrating IMU, camera, and wheel odometry data

• Build and maintain simulation environments for algorithm development and validation

• Support SIL and HIL test campaigns under the guidance of senior engineers

• Contribute to GNC documentations

• Work closely with avionics and embedded software engineers on real-time algorithm implementation

Requirements

Must have

• Strong interests in control theory, estimation, and linear algebra

• Working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink or Python for algorithm development and simulation

• Genuine interest in autonomous systems, robotics, or spacecraft GNC

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Good to have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Embedded Systems, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or related field

• Academic or project experience with Kalman filtering, SLAM, control system design, or any GNC implementation

• Familiarity with ROS or ROS2 in a robotics context

• Exposure to computer vision or vision-based navigation

• Final year project or thesis in GNC, autonomous systems, or a space-adjacent domain

• Participation in student rocketry, rover, or autonomous vehicle teams

What we deeply value

• Curiosity and ownership

• Ability to learn quickly across disciplines

• Practical engineering judgment and first principles thinking

• Profound mutual respect among co-workers

• Strong grit towards troubleshooting and iterative development

• Cross-disciplinary thinking and collaboration

Benefits

• Competitive compensation

• Performance based equity participation

• Meaningful long-term growth potential

• Complete honesty with only legally required abstractions