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About the Position
Our client located in the Central Coast of California is seeking a Senior GNC Engineer (Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer) to grow our small and agile team of engineers. We are looking for a candidate who can collaborate well with a small team to develop unmanned aircraft products for military and commercial applications. The work is hands-on, fast-paced, fun, and rewarding. There is a good variety of projects and challenges and exposure to multiple disciplines, including aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and software.
Minimum Requirements:
Chief Duties and/or Responsibilities:
Base Qualifications:
Additional Qualifications:
P-WLH-005
Senior GN&C Engineer
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 US
Posted: 06/02/2022
2022-06-02
2023-03-08
Employment Type:
Direct Placement
Category: Aerospace Engineers
Job Number: 94212
Job Description
About the Position
Our client located in the Central Coast of California is seeking a Senior GNC Engineer (Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer) to grow our small and agile team of engineers. We are looking for a candidate who can collaborate well with a small team to develop unmanned aircraft products for military and commercial applications. The work is hands-on, fast-paced, fun, and rewarding. There is a good variety of projects and challenges and exposure to multiple disciplines, including aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and software.
Minimum Requirements:
- US Citizen
- No clearance required
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or equivalent
- Not a remote position
- Senior position: preferred 5+ year’s work experience in flight control for UAS, software implementation of flight control systems, flight performance testing, flight data review
Chief Duties and/or Responsibilities:
- Design and develop guidance, navigation, and flight control algorithms for unmanned fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft
- Write, test, and document C/C++ autopilot software code
- Verify control law performance and troubleshoot flight control issues using 6-DOF analysis tools, HIL simulation, and flight test data
- Analyze customer supplied flight data to figure out what went wrong, and work out how to make it better
- Generate shop and flight test plans to explore or validate vehicle behavior
- Participate in flight test activities
- Analyze flight logs to (help) determine the root cause of issues
- Perform simulations to answer what-if questions
- Analyze vehicle firmware and communicate with the firmware team
Base Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant experience developing flight control software for fixed-wing aircraft, with demonstrated deep understanding of fixed-wing aircraft dynamics, control theory/design/analysis, and navigation theory/design/analysis
- Demonstrated proficiency in C/C++
- Experience working in computer model-based development of flight control systems, including proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development tool-set
- Strong background in sensor fusion
- Familiar with sensor and actuator characteristics and limitations
- Experience tuning PID controllers, state estimators, signal processing, path planning
- Control system simulation, implementation, test, and verification experience
- Must understand engineering concepts, principles, and theory and experience demonstrating the application of those concepts
- Must have strong communication, computer, documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience with embedded system development and signal processing
- Experience designing and implementing software for embedded real-time control systems for unmanned aircraft and/or robotics
P-WLH-005
Job Requirements
$180K is target rate. They would go up to $200K maybe more for someone really special and has what they are looking for.
Flight Controls for UAS, C, C++, Flight performance testing, Flight Data Review,, computer model-based development of flight, MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development tool-set