Staff GNC Engineer – Flight Controls

Palo Alto, CAfull timeOn Sitesenior$176k–$200kH1B: no

Pivotal The Staff GNC Engineer at Pivotal leads flight control law architecture, design, tuning, and verification from simulation through flight test. This role sets technical direction for aircraft control in hover, transition, and forward flight.

Responsibilities

The GNC team at Pivotal develops the flight control and navigation algorithms that let our aircraft fly safely and precisely, including on the Helix family of aircraft. We are looking for a Staff GNC Engineer to lead our flight control law work: owning the control law architecture and its design, tuning, and verification from simulation through flight test.
The ideal candidate has a track record of taking flight control laws from design to flight on real aircraft, ideally VTOL, rotorcraft, or eVTOL, and the judgment to make sound design and flight test decisions with incomplete information.