Sr. GNC Engineer
Core
Design and implement flight control algorithms for electric VTOL aircraft, verify complex systems, and analyze flight data to improve simulation models.
Role type
Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer
Builds
Flight control software and simulation models for all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
Domain
Aerospace engineering, electric aviation, flight dynamics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
vehicle dynamics, optimization, classical control theory, modern control theory, MATLAB/Simulink, simulation verification, trade studies, flight data analysis, systems engineering decomposition, fault detection and isolation
Preferred skills
GNC system verification on hardware, aircraft/rotorcraft performance requirements, envelope protection, physics modeling, system identification, trajectory generation, flight testing, piloting
Technologies
MATLAB, Simulink
Responsibilities
Participate in design and implement flight control algorithms for electric VTOL aircraft; Work cross functionally to connect GNC requirements with other system requirements; Influence leadership with decisions that are affected by GNC systems; Implement creative solutions to efficiently verify complex systems and software; Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements; Run trade studies to inform aircraft design and system architecture; Analyze full-scale and subscale flight data to improve our models
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
