Senior Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike - Advanced Effects
Core
Design, develop, test, and integrate guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) architectures for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic autonomous flight systems, including tactical missiles and strategic weapons.
Role type
Senior IC GNC Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)
Builds
Mission-critical flight systems for air dominance and strike operations
Domain
Defense, Aerospace, Hypersonics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Flight mechanics, classical and modern control theory, estimation and filtering, GNC simulation (MATLAB/Simulink), 6-DOF simulations, C/C++ coding, system architecture design
Preferred skills
High-speed flight system design, re-entry vehicle dynamics, Explicit Model Following, Dynamic Inversion, Adaptive Control, C code generation from Simulink
Technologies
MATLAB, Simulink, C, C++
Responsibilities
Develop and test GNC algorithms; design and assess GNC architectures with sensors and actuators; participate in system development from concept to operation; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams; conduct design reviews and safety assessments; troubleshoot GNC issues during testing and operations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
