Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer

Job Description

Salary:

Skydweller Aero Inc. is a transatlantic cutting-edge aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft solutions capable of achieving perpetual flight with heavy, and powerful payload capacity. Utilizing technology based upon the longest continuous renewably powered flight program in history, this fast-growing startup is developing a new class of unmanned aircraft, providing the persistence of geosynchronous satellites with the powerful sensing capabilities and the flexibility of a large, airborne platform. Skydweller Aero Inc. has World and US headquarters in Oklahoma City and European offices headquartered in Spain.

Job Description

Work in all areas of the system development cycle including requirements, CONOPs, high-level and detailed design, integration, and test

Provide assessments of vehicle-level stability and control characteristics in support of vehicle layout and control surface sizing

Design, and implement flight control laws

Design and implement testing architecture and evaluation tools for validating control laws through simulation

Design and implement physics-based and empirical models for a variety of subsystems and physical processes (aerodynamics, landing gear, actuators, etc)

Work with related organizations such as software and laboratory engineers to establish and maintain interfaces

Estimate aircraft stability and control derivatives and propulsion models for use in air vehicle simulations using a range of tools

Support integration and flight test for flight control law evaluation

Perform data reduction from ground and flight tests for model and design validation and verification including performance, stability and dynamic derivatives from model estimation

Design and implement sub-system simulation modules of the aircraft for the Skydweller mission management engine

Work with the Weather & Operations Analysis team to integrate the simulation models with weather data.

Required Qualifications

B.S. In Aerospace Engineering or B.S. Electrical Engineering or B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Demonstrated experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Python

Experience with flight control law design and analysis

Familiarity with flight dynamics

Flight test experience

5+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering or Related Field

Prior history in GNC engineer during an early development/flight test environment

Control Systems, Signal Processing or Autonomy academic background. Control, Guidance, Navigation or Autonomy Vehicle experience (preferably in the aviation field) via academic projects or professional experience

Implementation experience of multi-rate RTOS system

Design and implementation of Multi-Layer state machines

Familiarity with Model Identification

Familiarity with Redundancy Management

Familiarity with Fault Tree and Failure Mode Analysis

Awareness/Experience in modeling of Aeroservoelastic or Fluid Structure Interactions

Experience in Vehicle (aircraft or other) Systems Engineering in the areas of design, integration and test

Model based design experience

Experience in FAA/EASA/AESA certification programs

8+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above

Preferred Tool / Process Experience

Polarion

C/C++

Python

SCADE

DO-178

DO-254

ARP 4754

MIL-STD-1797A

Atlassian Tools (JIRA/Confluence)

Search Keywords

Guidance Navigation and Control

Flight Control

Flight Sciences

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Madrid, Madrid

Department

Flight Sciences

Employment Type

Full-Time

Minimum Experience

Experienced

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