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;
Provide assessments of vehicle-level stability and control characteristics in support of vehicle layout and control surface sizing;
Design, and implement flight control laws;
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;
Estimate aircraft stability and control derivatives and propulsion models for use in air vehicle simulations using a range of tools;
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;
Design and implement sub-system simulation modules of the aircraft for the Skydweller mission management engine;
Work with the Weather & Operations Analysis team to integrate the simulation models with weather data.

S. In Aerospace Engineering or B.S. Electrical Engineering or B.S. Mechanical Engineering;
Demonstrated experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Python;
Experience with flight control law design and analysis;
Familiarity with 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;
Implementation experience of multi-rate RTOS system;
Design and implementation of Multi-Layer state machines;
Familiarity with Model Identification;
Familiarity with Redundancy Management;
Familiarity with Fault Tree and Failure Mode Analysis;
Awareness/Experience in modeling of Aeroservoelastic or Fluid Structure Interactions;
Experience in Vehicle (aircraft or other) Systems Engineering in the areas of design, integration and test;
Model based design experience;
Experience in FAA/EASA/AESA certification programs;
8+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above.