Sr. Staff GNC Engineer
Core
Design and implement flight control algorithms, simulations, and verification for novel all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
Role type
Sr. Staff Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer
Builds
Flight control software, simulation models, and verification systems for sustainable air mobility vehicles
Domain
Aerospace engineering, electric aviation, control theory
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
vehicle dynamics, optimization, classical and modern control theory, MATLAB/Simulink, system identification, fault detection and isolation, trajectory generation
Preferred skills
aircraft/rotorcraft performance requirements, GNC system verification, envelope protection, physics modeling, flight testing, piloting experience
Technologies
MATLAB, Simulink
Responsibilities
Design and implement flight control algorithms for novel VTOL aircraft; Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements; Analyze full-scale and sub scale flight data to improve models; Author software requirements and test cases that drive the design of the GNC software; Collaborate with Systems Engineering to decompose higher level requirements; Work with the Flight Test team to design tests that safely evaluate vehicle capabilities
Seniority
Sr. Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
