Archer - Sr. Staff GNC Engineer

Remote - Remote; San Jose, California, United States$220k - $270k1mo ago

Remote Staff NA Airlines Aerospace Staff Engineer MATLAB

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of vehicle dynamics, optimization, and both classical and modern control theory • BS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field with at least 10 years of relevant experience OR MS with at least 6 years of relevant experience OR PhD with at least 4 years of relevant experience • Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink • Familiarity with aircraft or rotorcraft performance and handling qualities requirements • Experience verifying GNC systems in simulation and on hardware • Experience with envelope protection • Experience with modeling physics, sensors, and actuators • Experience applying system identification techniques to aircraft or rotorcraft • Knowledge of fault detection and isolation techniques • Experience implementing trajectory generation and/or optimization algorithms • Experience flight testing piloted and/or autonomous aircraft or rotorcraft • Piloting experience (aircraft or rotorcraft)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement flight control algorithms for novel VTOL aircraft • Implement creative solutions to efficiently verify complex systems and software • Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements • Run trade studies to inform aircraft design and system architecture • Work with the Flight Test team to design tests that safely evaluate the vehicle capabilities • Improve the fidelity and capabilities of our vehicle and environment simulation models • Analyze full-scale and sub scale flight data to improve our models • Author software requirements and test cases that drive the design of the GNC software • Collaborate with Systems Engineering to properly decompose higher level requirements • Collaborate with Systems Safety and Systems Engineering to identify and correct any deficiencies in the Flight Control System.