# Senior GNC Engineer at Inversion Space

- Company: Inversion Space
- What the company does: Making Space a Transportation Layer for Earth. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.inversionspace.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Playa Vista, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $139K to $199K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/inversionspace/jobs/4705193005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inversion-space-senior-gnc-engineer/

## About the role

High-performance maneuvering demands an extremely responsive airframe and control system. As the Senior GNC Engineer (Controls), you will be part of the team that develops high fidelity plant models describing Inversion’s reentry vehicles and you own the development of the flight control system that allows our vehicles to track aggressive guidance commands quickly and crisply. In this role, you will:

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- Typically, 5+ years of applicable experience designing and testing control systems for aerospace vehicles
- Experience building plant models of aerospace systems, including aerodynamic, actuator, and sensor dynamics and controlling open-loop unstable systems
- Experience with high-rate digital control design, including discretization, sample rate selection, and the management of latency and computational delay
- Experience developing and exercising 3-DOF and 6-DOF flight simulations
- Strong fundamentals in classical and modern control theory, including frequency-domain loop shaping, stability margin analysis, and state-space methods

Tags: Reentry