Technical Staff, Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC)

The role

This person will provide company-level technical leadership in GNC spanning theory to hardware. They will develop technical standards, lead problem-solving teams, and develop engineering capability roadmaps.

What you will do

• Provide company-level technical discipline leadership in GNC spanning theory to hardware
• Create technical standards, best practices, and common tool chains
• Support program execution by leading teams through high-impact problem solutions
• Develop and maintain engineering capability roadmaps
• Propose and lead Internal Research and Development projects
• Support white papers, proposals, and other front end of the business efforts
• Engage in mentoring and developing more junior colleagues
• Support recruiting and hiring activities

Required qualifications

• In-depth expertise and experience in deriving and implementing GNC architectures
• Demonstrated ability as a technical leader
• Demonstrated ability applying technical expertise to solve high-impact problems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with relevant industry and military standards and regulatory specifications
• Experience proposing and leading IRAD projects
• Ability to interact with customers and/or external stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience applying analytical and critical thinking skills to solve multi-disciplinary, open-ended engineering problems
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment to achieve business goals
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOW security clearance
• Experience with embedded systems and RTOS / FPGA implementation of algorithms
• Ability to derive GNC requirements based on vehicle constraints and mission objectives

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and best practices, especially relating to requirements verification through test and MBSE
• Experience owning and implementing technical roadmaps
• Experience supporting hypersonic vehicle development programs culminating in flight testing
• Experience developing GNC architectures for high supersonic or hypersonic systems
• Ability to aid in HWIL development across both hardware and software domains
• Experience working on high speed airbreathing system with hysteretic, multi-modal behavior
• Experience developing high performance extensible interfaces both in hardware and software
• Familiarity with less common navigation aiding signals and approaches (SoOP, SLAM, Celestial)
• Experience utilizing adjoint methods to analytically derive requirements
• Familiarity with control system margins (gain, phase, vector) and performance (time const, undershoot, overshoot) metrics and how to appropriately analyze and optimize

Benefits

• Healthcare ( medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs )
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
• 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
• Tuition reimbursement

Before you apply

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOW security clearance

About the company

Stratolaunch accelerates the development of next-generation aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing. Their autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments.