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Salary: USD 191,000 - 292,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Staff Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer to join the Flight Engineering team within the Air Dominance & Strike division. This role is pivotal in designing, developing, testing, and implementing cutting-edge flight system technologies for advanced aerospace systems including tactical missile systems, strategic weapons, and hypersonic strike and defense systems.
You will develop, test, and integrate GNC architectures for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic autonomous systems. The role involves developing and implementing algorithms for guidance, navigation, and control systems; designing and assessing GNC architectures considering sensors, actuators, and algorithms; and participating in all phases of system development from concept through design, prototyping, testing, and operation.
Key responsibilities include collaborating with multidisciplinary teams (systems engineers, flight software engineers, test engineers) to ensure system-wide integration and performance; contributing to design reviews, safety assessments, and system documentation; using simulation and analysis tools to verify GNC models and system performance under different operating conditions; providing system engineering expertise in GNC development; troubleshooting and resolving GNC-related issues during design, testing, and operational phases; and staying current with latest technologies and trends in GNC engineering and system architecture design.
Anduril fosters a dynamic learning culture characterized by accelerated knowledge acquisition through modeling, simulation, analysis, and rigorous ground and flight test experimentation. You will be directly involved in flight testing the systems you develop.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12 or more years of experience in Guidance, Navigation & Control engineering or related technical experience
- BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering or related field with focus on dynamics and control
- Strong theoretical knowledge of flight mechanics, classical and modern control theory, estimation, and filtering techniques
- Experience developing GNC solutions for flight systems
- Proficiency with GNC simulation tools like MATLAB, Simulink and related toolboxes
- Familiarization with 6-DOF simulations
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- MS or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Strong understanding of flight mechanics and related physics
- Practical experience developing GNC designs for high-speed flight systems and re-entry vehicles
- Practical experience with Explicit Model Following, Dynamic Inversion, and Adaptive Control techniques
- Extensive experience in GNC system and architecture development and testing, preferably in aerospace industry
- Experience generating C or C++ code from Simulink models
- Experience writing code in C/C++
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Familiarity with agile and Lean product development methodologies such as Scrum
- Experience using Jira, Git, GitHub, or GitLab
- Understanding of and compliance with industry, safety, and quality standards
- Current Active U.S. Top Secret clearance preferred
