Archer56
Staff GNC Engineer
San Jose, California, United States · Staff+
No sponsorship$175k-$220kDetected 20 days ago
MATLABAlgorithmsSystems EngineeringAerospace EngineeringControlsSimulinkLeadershipActuators
About the role
- All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs.
- We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.
Responsibilities
- Participate in design and implement flight control algorithms for electric 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
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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)
Compensation
- For this position we are targeting a base pay between $175,000 - $220,000.
Company info
- Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility.
- We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
- Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success.
- We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.
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