Sr. GNC Engineer

About the role

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California, building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design and implement flight control algorithms for electric VTOL aircraft
• Work cross-functionally to connect GNC requirements with other system requirements
• Influence leadership with decisions that are affected by GNC systems
• 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 subscale 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 a related field with at least 5 years of relevant experience OR MS with at least 3 years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience verifying GNC systems in simulation and on hardware
• Expert with aircraft or rotorcraft performance and handling qualities requirements
• Experience with envelope protection
• Experience with modeling physics, sensors, and actuators
• Experience applying system identification techniques to aircraft or rotorcraft
• Knowledge of fault detection and isolation techniques
• Experience implementing trajectory generation and/or optimization algorithms
• Experience flight testing piloted and/or autonomous aircraft or rotorcraft
• Piloting experience (aircraft or rotorcraft)

Qualifications

• BS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field with at least 5 years of relevant experience
• MS with at least 3 years of relevant experience

Skills

• Strong knowledge of vehicle dynamics, optimization, and both classical and modern control theory
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink

Benefits

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Pay

Archer is targeting a base pay between $140,000 - $180,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Schedule

Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.