# GNC Engineer

About the Company At AstroForge, our mission is to make space resources accessible on Earth. We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than current terrestrial mining methods. We offer a unique opportunity to join an exciting team looking to expand humanity’s capabilities in space. Job Description: As a GNC engineer at AstroForge, you’ll own a large part of the flight algorithms powering the world’s first asteroid mining vehicles. You’ll be part of a talented team of engineers to develop, analyze, and test vehicle algorithms and software for reliable, fault-tolerant flight. You should love to solve hard, multidisciplinary problems, be able to learn quickly, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and test innovative guidance, navigation, control, and perception algorithms in flight software for highly autonomous deep space missions Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation Help push flight software to the edge in Monte Carlo and Hardware-in-the-loop testing and contribute fixes and performance improvements Review algorithms and softwar

- **Id**: 4123617
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astroforge-gnc-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seal Beach, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:18:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:58:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3403
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Insurance coverage, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace

## Company

- **Id**: 2263925
- **Name**: AstroForge
- **Domain**: astroforge.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astroforge>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 301
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 145000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 145000

## Technologies

- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T00:58:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 218
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:10:03Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 145000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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