Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer

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Skydweller

Work in all areas of the system development cycle including requirements, CONOPs, high-level and detailed design, integration, and test;
Design, implement and validate automatic flight features, including new functions, flight control laws and failure handling logic;
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including avionics, mission planning and software engineers to define and refine system design and requirements;
Contribute to development of GNC design and validation, including integration and tailoring of company tools and processes;
Provide assessments of vehicle-level stability and control characteristics in support of vehicle layout and control surface and flight control modifications;
Design and implement testing architecture and evaluation tools for validating control laws through simulation;
Design and implement physics-based and empirical models for a variety of subsystems and physical processes (aerodynamics, landing gear, actuators, etc.);
Work with related organizations such as software and laboratory engineers to establish and maintain interfaces and common practices;
Support integration and flight test for flight control law evaluation;
Perform data reduction from ground and flight tests for model and design validation and verification including performance, stability and dynamic derivatives from model estimation.

S. In Aerospace Engineering or B.S. Electrical Engineering or B.S. Mechanical Engineering;
Demonstrated experience with design and integration of flight control systems;
Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Python;
Experience with flight control law design and analysis and flight dynamics;
Flight test experience;
5+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above.

Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering or Related Field;
Prior history in GNC engineer during an early development/flight test environment;
Control Systems, Signal Processing or Autonomy academic background. Control, Guidance, Navigation or Autonomy Vehicle experience (preferably in the aviation field) via academic projects or professional experience;
Experience in Vehicle Control (aircraft or other) Systems Engineering in the areas of design, integration and test;
Experience in design and implementation of Safety Critical Systems, e.g. multi-layer state machines;
Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering;
Familiarity with Redundancy Management including Failure, Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR);
Familiarity with Data reduction and Model Identification;
Awareness/Experience in modeling of Aeroservoelastic or Fluid Structure Interactions;
Experience in FAA/EASA/AESA certification programs;
8+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above.