Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer - Early Career & New Graduate Rotation

Position: Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer I - Early Career & New Graduate Rotation (2026 Starts)
We offer two pathways for full-time employment (please indicate your preference in your application):

Direct Hire:
Multiple positions available across our Business Units. You will be matched with an appropriate engineering team based on your skillset and experience and our current business needs. New Graduate Rotation Program:
This one-year development program enables you to expand your engineering skillset through a variety of hands-on experience and mentorship. Throughout your three four-month rotations, you'll explore a variety of fields supporting our business units:
New Shepard, New Glenn, Blue Engines, Lunar Permanence, In-Space Systems, Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering, and Operations. Upon completing this uniquely personalized program, you'll collaborate with the Program Manager to determine the best team fit for your ongoing career.

We prioritize placing early career engineers in locations where they can be co-located with their team and the relevant hardware they support. The primary locations for this role are listed below. Please indicate in the application where you would be willing to be located.
** Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
** guidance, navigation, controls, autonomy, avionics, simulation, mission design, trajectory optimization, system test, aero sciences, mission design, trajectory optimization, and systems engineering.

Design, analyze, develop and verify guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) software for spaceflight systems.  Perform system analyses, including simulations and Monte-Carlo, to satisfy specifications and requirements and to drive system-level architectural decisions. Specific duties are subject to our business unit objectives.  
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* Qualifications:

** Demonstrated knowledge in designing and testing control systems for aerospace vehicles or mechanical and fluidic subsystems. Practical experience in guidance, navigation, and controls algorithm development and analysis for aerospace or mobile robotic applications. Strong software and model development skills, particularly in MATLAB/Simulink, and C/C++. Relevant internship/co-op and/or hands-on experience that demonstrate development of both technical skills as well as leadership qualities.

Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs.  Self-driven with the ability to seek out requirements with minimal direction.

Knowledge of multi-body dynamics, flexible body dynamics, gas and fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.

Experience with modeling electro-mechanical, hydraulic and electrical subsystems. Experience anchoring/fitting first principles models to test data or high-fidelity external simulations using system identification or other numerical methods.
* Experience with Spacecraft Systems Engineering Experience developing and verifying physical models for the purpose of control design, component sizing, and system performance evaluation.

Experience with Monte Carlo simulation testing.

Experience supporting flight testing or launch operations Experience supporting component level testing and/or flight testing. Ability to continuously manage risk and become comfortable with lean software development techniques Proven system engineering, configuration management skills.
* Experience with Verification and Validation

Experience with Python and Linux environments. We are solving challenging, new problems and we need people to represent a wide variety of perspectives. Experience in aerospace is not a requirement. We value broad academic and industry experiences such as Tech, Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Automotive, and more.

When you apply, include your internship, co-curricular and research experience in your resume. Please also include the relevant programming languages you have used in these settings. If you haven’t yet used a tool in a professional setting, please include relevant coursework that demonstrates your preparation for these roles.
* Required for all positions:
Blue’s Standard Background Check
* Required for Certain Job Profiles:  Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
* Required for Certain Job Profiles:
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Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing (CDL drivers only), vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.
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