Senior GNC Engineer, RoboticsActive$253K

Costa Mesa, California, United StatesManufacturing

The opportunity

The Tactical Recon and Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from paper sketches to operational systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop, debug, and test flight controllers and guidance algorithms

  • Develop and test Software-In-The-Loop and Hardware-In-The-Loop tests in preparation for flight testing

  • Work closely with the flight software team to define requirements, integrate: GNC software and test functionality in simulation

  • Review test data captured from the flight control system, subsystems, and: other test instrumentation to verify vehicle performance, evaluate GNC algorithm/controller behavior, or debug incidents during testing or from fielded assets

  • Develop models required to support functional evaluation of GNC software

What they're looking for

  • Master’s Degree of PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical: Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field with a focus on dynamic systems and control
  • Experience with state estimation: Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, etc.
  • Experience with integrating and debugging navigation systems for aerial platforms
  • Experience with flight control design and analysis for fixed and rotary wing aircraft or missile systems
  • Experience with guidance algorithm development
  • C/C++ Proficiency
  • Experience with Simulink Embedded Coder