Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer
Core
Designing high-speed autonomous flight guidance and motion planning systems that convert mission objectives into flyable paths for defense aircraft.
Role type
Senior IC flight guidance and motion planning engineer
Builds
Onboard motion planning, trajectory generation, and guidance laws for autonomous defense systems
Domain
Defense / Autonomous Flight / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
onboard motion planning, trajectory generation, guidance laws design, perception-coupled control, learning-based planning, simulation-based training, systems engineering, validation, Monte Carlo testing
Preferred skills
vision-based guidance, perception-coupled guidance
Technologies
optimization-based planning, differentiable approaches, SITL, HITL
Responsibilities
Plan dynamically feasible paths with obstacle avoidance and replanning; generate feasible trajectories under airframe limits; design guidance laws for aircraft steering; manage interfaces with perception pipeline handling latency and dropout; implement mode and failsafe logic; verify systems via simulation and flight tests; mentor junior engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
