Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer

Description

The company builds the largest swarming UAV and a versatile swarming aircraft network, and is working to launch its first aircraft designed for swarming, along with command and control software that coordinates swarms of thousands of mixed autonomous assets under human operators.

The team has founded and sold several startups, closed defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built more than 30 new aircraft. Members come from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin and Boom Supersonic.

This role is for a Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer on the GNC team, where you will lead the building of control systems for the company's aircraft. You will set up the processes and tools for vehicle modeling and GNC algorithm work, and help test and validate the aircraft.

Responsibilities

• Design and refine algorithms for flight control, payload management and autonomy.
• Build and improve design and analysis tools so the work runs more efficiently and with higher quality.
• Refine simulation models to higher fidelity so they support GNC development and testing.
• Test and validate the GNC system across simulation, subscale, ground and full-scale flight tests.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of relevant experience.
• You have developed control systems for an aircraft.
• You have used MATLAB/Simulink to build algorithms, model dynamic systems and analyze performance.
• You have 7+ years of aircraft development experience, including time on a small team that moved fast.
• You have taken part in a full aircraft development cycle, from design through build and test.

Conditions

Candidates must pass a comprehensive background check before they can be hired.

To meet U.S. Government export rules, including ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing defense technology company.
• Competitive base salary based on experience.
• Medical, dental, vision and 401k coverage.
• PTO and paid sick leave.
• Monthly wellness stipend.
• Daily catered lunch in the office.
• Paid parental leave.
• Work on a critical national security mission.
• Work alongside engineers and operators tackling hard problems.