Senior GNC Engineer

The role

The Senior GNC Engineer will architect, design, and deliver Guidance, Navigation and Control sub-systems for autonomous robotic platforms. This role involves developing real-time embedded software and modeling/simulation capabilities for un-crewed maritime and air domain systems.

What you will do

• Lead architecture selection, design and implementation for GNC sub-systems and control schemes
• Integrate technology from third-party vendors, research partners, and internal teams
• Contribute to the design and development of other embedded sub-systems
• Develop real-time embedded software using a RTOS
• Create test and simulation fixtures for software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Develop modeling and simulation capabilities
• Analyse test data to verify vehicle performance and evaluate GNC behavior
• Drive light-weight root cause analyses for vehicle anomalies
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and mentor engineers

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• At least 6 years experience with development of high assurance safety critical GNC software, including cascading controls, adaptive controls, and transfer functions
• Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
• Extensive experience with MATLAB and Simulink
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Nice to have

• Familiarity with communications busses and protocols such as CAN, CANFD, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet
• Experience writing C and/or C++
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems
• Experience with DO-178 or similar certifications
• Familiarity with open source control software such as PX4, ArduPilot, or ROS
• Experience with RTOS

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril Australia develops un-crewed maritime and air domain systems that leverage unsupervised autonomy.