GNC Engineer, Controls

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design control systems within defined architecture and requirements for fixed-wing vehicles
• Design and implement control laws accounting for actuator limits, time delays, and sensor noise as part of the controls team
• Participate in system identification and aerodynamic model development from wind-tunnel, CFD, and flight-test data
• Execute verification & validation work: SIL/HIL campaigns, Monte Carlo, and flight-readiness criteria; communicate findings to the team and program leadership.
• Participate in flight-test planning and execution; analyze logs, tune controllers, and iterate safely and quickly.
• Learn from the controls team, carry your work through design/code reviews to meet roadmap goals and milestones.

Job requirements

• Education: Bachelors in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics
• Experience: 0-5 years designing, analyzing and fielding flight control systems for fixed-wing aircraft or high-performance UAVs, including flight test.
• Deep knowledge of flight dynamics, stability/controllability, and actuator/sensor modeling.
• Familiarity with modern C++ for embedded real-time implementations; strong MATLAB/Simulink/Python for modeling, ID, and analysis.
• Familiarity with verification workflows (SIL/HIL), requirements traceability, and safety reviews.
• Familiarity with modern software workflows (git, code review, issue tracking) and data/telemetry analysis.
• Practical and/or academic experience with modern/MIMO control design (LQR, LQG, LTR), system ID techniques, adaptive control
• Experience with energy-based control, autothrottle, sideslip/yaw coordination, and advanced control allocation for over-actuated systems