Senior GNC AutoPilot

About the role

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a Senior Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer to lead autopilot design, stability analysis, and control law development for Sceptre across its full flight envelope. This role owns the flight control system architecture from gun-launch transient dynamics through supersonic and hypersonic ramjet cruise, including control surface sizing, actuator specification, and control law design.

Responsibilities

• Lead flight control system design including autopilot architecture, control law development, and gain scheduling from transonic through hypersonic flight regimes.
• Perform stability analysis using aerodynamic databases and define stability margin requirements for the Sceptre flight envelope.
• Analyze gun-launch transient dynamics including muzzle exit stability, setback loads, and bore-rider interactions with control surfaces.
• Define control surface geometry, placement, and actuation system requirements including hinge moment, torque, bandwidth, and slew rate.
• Develop and validate control laws in MATLAB and Simulink and define requirements for embedded flight software implementation.
• Lead control system performance verification covering closed-loop bandwidth, disturbance rejection margins, and robustness to aerodynamic uncertainty.
• Support wind tunnel test planning for control surface effectiveness measurement and dynamic derivative data acquisition.
• Lead GN&C autopilot technical content at milestone reviews and produce supporting technical documentation.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• 8 or more years of flight dynamics and control law design experience on guided munitions, missiles, or high-performance aerospace vehicles.
• Demonstrated expertise in classical and modern control design such as PID, LQR, H-infinity, mu-synthesis, gain scheduling, and/or modeling following control.
• Strong background in 6-DOF simulation and model integration for control law evaluation.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink for control law design, linear analysis, system identification and nonlinear simulation.
• Experience with stability analysis and robustness verification under model uncertainty.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with fin-stabilized or spin-stabilized gun-launched projectile dynamics including Magnus effect, spin-yaw coupling, and dynamic stability derivatives.
• Background with ramjet or rocket-powered high-speed vehicle flight control design.
• Familiarity with deployable or pop-out fin control surface design and hinge mechanism integration.
• Experience with adaptive or robust control methods for vehicles with significant aerodynamic uncertainty.
• Background in control-structures interaction analysis for flexible or articulated fin configurations.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.

Benefits

Tiberius Aerospace offers competitive base compensation commensurate with experience, equity participation, comprehensive health benefits, and 401(k).

Pay

Salary Range: $145,000 to $190,000

Schedule

Full-time, on-site preferred in Tucson, Arizona