Astromecha
Senior GNC Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 76 days ago
PythonRustC++AlgorithmsAvionicsRoboticsAerospace EngineeringElectrical EngineeringControlsCollaborationMentoringAdaptability
About the role
- We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
- We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.
- WHO YOU ARE: You're a GNC engineer who wants real ownership over the guidance and control systems of a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement guidance, navigation, and control systems for our products
- Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for analysis and validation
- Develop tooling to automate control design, monte carlos, and simulation validation
- Support flight and ground test operations
- Experience in algorithm design for autonomous vehicles
- Experience in fly-by-wire control design for aircraft
Requirements
- Master's degree or PhD in robotics, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline
- 5+ years of professional experience in GNC development for an aerospace or autonomous vehicle program
- Experience with dynamics, modeling, and simulation
- Experience with software development best practices
- Experience with Rust, C++, Python, or other relevant software languages.
- Experience and/or an interest in mentoring junior engineers on GNC work and concepts
- Experience communicating to teams of different disciplines about implications of GNC on their work and vice versa
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan
- Self-managed and flexible time-off policy, including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time
- Flexible work environment
Company info
- Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
- Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
- In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
- We're a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace. We're generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well. We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.
- You're a GNC engineer who wants real ownership over the guidance and control systems of a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft. You're comfortable working from first principles, collaborating tightly with propulsion, structures, and avionics, and making practical tradeoffs to get hardware flying. You care deeply about how systems behave in the real world-not just in simulation-and you're motivated by building control architectures that are robust, testable, and ready for flight.
- To achieve this, we are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies-which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system-with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.
- We're a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
- We're generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
- You're a GNC engineer who wants real ownership over the guidance and control systems of a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft.
- You're comfortable working from first principles, collaborating tightly with propulsion, structures, and avionics, and making practical tradeoffs to get hardware flying.
- You care deeply about how systems behave in the real world-not just in simulation-and you're motivated by building control architectures that are robust, testable, and ready for flight.
Equal opportunity
- Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer.
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