Senior GNC Engineer
Icarus, Los Angeles, California
What you will do
- Design, implement, and fly guidance, navigation, and control systems for long-endurance stratospheric aircraft
- Own the GNC stack end to end: modeling, simulation, control law design, estimation, tuning, validation, and flight test
- Develop and maintain vehicle dynamics models and simulation environments
- Design and tune controllers for launch, climb, station-keeping, loiter, descent, and recovery
- Integrate GNC tightly with avionics, sensors, propulsion, and autonomy software
- Debug and iterate rapidly using flight data, hardware-in-the-loop, and field testing
- Support integration, production bring-up, and flight operations in the desert
What you need
- 2+ years working on real GNC systems for aircraft, UAVs, spacecraft, or similarly complex dynamic systems
- Strong fundamentals in dynamics, controls, estimation, and linear systems