Principal Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer

The role

The Principal GNC Engineer will own the guidance, navigation, and control architecture for the Massed Modular Aircraft program. This role focuses on multi-aircraft interoperation, including the design, verification, and validation of behaviors for multiple air vehicles using 6DOF simulations.

What you will do

• Own the guidance, navigation, and control architecture for the MMA air vehicle
• Design and develop control laws and guidance algorithms
• Define sensor fusion and state estimation approaches
• Partner with Avionics to ensure GNC algorithms are correctly implemented
• Develop and maintain 6DOF simulation environments for multiple MMA aircraft
• Use multi-aircraft 6DOF simulation to design, test, and verify behaviors
• Define simulation architecture for verifying multi-vehicle GNC behavior
• Validate simulation fidelity against flight test data
• Perform stability and performance analysis for the flight control system
• Analyze multi-aircraft interaction effects

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
• 15+ years of guidance, navigation, and control engineering experience for aircraft or unmanned aircraft systems
• Hands-on experience developing and using 6 degree-of-freedom (6DOF) simulations involving multiple interacting aircraft
• Strong background in flight control law design, state estimation/navigation algorithms, and stability/performance analysis
• Experience supporting flight test planning, execution, and data correlation back to simulation/analysis predictions

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (M.S./Ph.D.) in a relevant GNC/controls discipline
• Experience with modular, attritable, low-cost, or mass-producible aircraft programs
• Ability to obtain/maintain Secret/Top Secret/SCI clearance

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch while you're working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon)

Before you apply

• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach

About the company

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and focuses on modern defense with a multi-product portfolio.