GNC Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

Muon Space · Mission Execution

Where: Mountain View, CA
Posted: 5 days ago

Summer internships will range between the months of May and September depending on university schedules. Internship is full-time and on-site in Mountain View, CA.

The Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineering team at Muon is responsible for all GNC on the spacecraft, ranging from sensor and actuator selection to system-level pointing analysis and even writing GNC flight software! Software-focused interns can look forward to owning a project from start to finish which could involve performance analysis, creation of new spacecraft operations tools, or even developing new spacecraft functionality. Come work with the team and help design the future GNC for our Spacecraft!

Muon is a small and fast growing startup which offers interns the experience to get direct mentorship and have real impact on our programs.

What you'd do

Conduct system-level GNC analysis to support both development and on-orbit operations
Develop or improve a GNC software feature or capability
Build new tools to analyze, calibrate, and operate on-orbit GNC subsystems
Write, improve, and automate GNC performance and regression software tests

What they want

Classwork in software engineering, as well as mechanical/aerospace engineering, applied physics, and/or EE/filtering/estimation
Programming skills in C++ and/or python. Julia is a plus!
Interest in spacecraft attitude estimation and control
Previous internship or co-op experience
Experience with hardware/software integration, mechatronics projects, etc
Previous experience on technical project teams (i.e. Rocket club, formula SAE, solar car, etc.)
Experience with attitude estimation or control