Steven Elliott
Control System Engineer at BLUE ORIGIN
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Elliott is a control systems engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and validating guidance, navigation, and control software for space systems, currently applying his expertise at Blue Origin. He has a strong Simulink-C toolchain background from developing flight software at Northrop Grumman and Orbital ATK, including HIL testing, fault and momentum management, and attitude estimation for LEO and GEO platforms. His MS in Aerospace Engineering complements a practical record of automating simulation workflows and parameterized aircraft modeling from student research, reflecting a knack for turning complex physical models into testable software. Known for bridging academic research and flight-capable code, he also maintains a public thesis site and GitHub that document his parametric aircraft work and simulation tooling. Based in Seattle, he brings deep domain knowledge of reaction wheel, magnetorquer, and thruster control systems alongside a pragmatic focus on testability and error diagnosis.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (2)
kerbal-space5
procedure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DesignInformaticsLab/Social_Gracefulness_of_Autonomous_Systems
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 9 months
sjellio1/KSP_Controller
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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