Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer
Skydweller
Madrid, Spain
Job Description
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
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