GNC Engineer

🛩️ GNC Engineer - Electric Aviation & eVTOL Systems (USA) 🛩️
📍 Location: California
💼 Full-Time
🕒 Experience: Mid to Senior Level

As a GNC Engineer, you'll develop the core algorithms and control logic that enable safe, stable, and efficient flight - from vertical takeoff to forward cruise and autonomous landing. You'll collaborate across flight software, avionics, and airframe design teams to ensure seamless integration of guidance and control strategies.

Your work will directly influence aircraft performance, safety, and certification.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms for guidance, navigation, flight control, and trajectory planning

• Develop simulation environments and model dynamics of multirotor and fixed-wing hybrid aircraft

• Work closely with sensor fusion, state estimation, and autopilot teams

• Support flight testing, including tuning control laws and analyzing flight data

• Ensure real-time performance, stability, and robustness of flight control systems

• Participate in safety analysis and compliance with aviation standards (DO-178C, DO-254, etc.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Controls, or a related field

• 3+ years of experience in GNC algorithm development for UAVs, drones, or aircraft systems

• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink, Python, and C/C++ for embedded systems

• Strong understanding of control theory, dynamics, and real-time implementation

• Experience with inertial navigation, GPS integration, and sensor fusion

• Familiarity with flight test operations and post-flight analysis

Bonus Points

• Background in eVTOL, rotorcraft, or hybrid-electric propulsion systems

• Experience with nonlinear control, adaptive control, or model predictive control (MPC)

• Familiarity with PX4/ArduPilot or custom flight control firmware

• Exposure to FAA certification processes or airworthiness standards