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Senior Software Engineer, Guidance, Navigation, & Controls - Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike Division

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop, debug, and test flight controllers and guidance algorithms for autonomous drones in contested environments.

Role type

Senior IC GNC software engineer

Builds

Autonomous drone fleet (Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, Altius) and solid rocket motors

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

GNC law development, dynamic systems modeling, linearization, Matlab, Simulink, C/C++, embedded Coder

Preferred skills

State estimation (Kalman filtering), sensor fusion, flight control design for fixed/rotary wing, guidance algorithm development

Technologies

Matlab, Simulink, Simulink Embedded Coder, C/C++

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