# GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) Engineer

About Starfish Space: Starfish Space provides satellite servicing missions with its Otter servicing vehicle, including life extension missions for geostationary satellites and disposal missions for low Earth orbit satellites. Founded in 2019, Starfish has raised over $150M in venture capital funding and built a team of engineers with experience spanning satellite guidance, navigation, control, and autonomous robotics. Starfish has launched several missions to-date, and is focused on delivering Otter satellite servicing missions for SES, the U.S. Space Force, the Space Development Agency, NASA, and others. Position Description Satellite servicing missions require autonomous, robotic actions in orbit. To fulfill our mission, Starfish developed the Otter servicing vehicle and the CEPHALOPOD guidance software to interact with and maximize the operational value of satellites. GNC Engineers at Starfish Space support the refinement of flight algorithms to autonomously guide satellites during rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD), and relies on guidance, navigation, and control skills. This engineer will do everything ranging from writing software, to developing autonomous f

- **Id**: 515565
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/starfish-space-gnc-guidance-navigation-and-control-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tukwila, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-16T16:48:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T03:51:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 179
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2170
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 10907
- **Name**: Starfish Space
- **Domain**: starfishspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/starfishspace>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 112
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 178

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-07T18:39:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 25
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.699
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 178
- **Expected fill days**: 112
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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