Senior Staff GNC Engineer

🕒 May 26

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $220k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Archer

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501 - 1000 employees

Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds of up to 150mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

📋 Description

• Design and implement flight control algorithms for novel VTOL aircraft • Implement creative solutions to efficiently verify complex systems and software • Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements • Run trade studies to inform aircraft design and system architecture • Work with the Flight Test team to design tests that safely evaluate the vehicle capabilities • Improve the fidelity and capabilities of our vehicle and environment simulation models • Analyze full-scale and sub scale flight data to improve our models • Author software requirements and test cases that drive the design of the GNC software • Collaborate with Systems Engineering to properly decompose higher level requirements • Collaborate with Systems Safety and Systems Engineering to identify and correct any deficiencies in the Flight Control System.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong knowledge of vehicle dynamics, optimization, and both classical and modern control theory • BS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field with at least 10 years of relevant experience OR MS with at least 6 years of relevant experience OR PhD with at least 4 years of relevant experience • Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Diversity and inclusivity commitment