Senior GNC & Autonomy Engineer

RGIT Australia; Mount Maunganui; On-site; NZD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SYOS Aerospace seeks an experienced GNC/Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind next-generation autonomous vehicles. You will mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across autonomy, perception, sensor fusion, and ML, guiding complex challenges from modelling to real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with Systems, Software, Mechatronics, Electronics and Flight Test teams to implement robust autonomy solutions across UAV/UGV/USV platforms, driving architecture and

Qualifications

• Significant experience in autonomy engineering, robotics, GNC or related discipline.
• Proven ability to operate as a senior technical contributor or technical lead.
• Strong understanding of navigation, control, perception, sensor fusion and autonomous decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical expert and mentor within the autonomy engineering team.
• Provide technical leadership across autonomy, GNC, perception, sensor fusion, machine learning and computer vision.
• Guide engineers through complex technical challenges and support sound engineering decisions.
• Develop and improve autonomy solutions for UAV, UGV and USV platforms.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical direction across multiple autonomous platforms.
• Work from modelling and simulation through embedded implementation, integration, testing and real-world deployment.
• Apply systems-level thinking to understand requirements, interfaces, dependencies and interactions across the vehicle.
• Work closely with Systems Engineering to ensure autonomy solutions integrate with the broader system.
• Help establish engineering best practices, standards and ways of working across autonomy.
• Partner with Software, Systems, Mechatronics, Electronics and Flight Test teams to solve multidisciplinary problems.
• Review and challenge technical approaches, designs and decisions.
• Support the development of engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Stay across emerging autonomy technologies and identify opportunities to improve SYOS capability.
• Get hands-on when required on complex problems, integration and testing.
• Translate ambitious ideas into reliable technology that performs in the real world.

Skills

Autonomy engineering

GNC

Robotics

Mechatronics

Systems thinking

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Hands-on engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Aerospace/Robotics/EE/Mechatronics

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

ROS/ROS2

C++/Python

PX4/ArduPilot

Job description

SYOS Aerospace seeks an experienced GNC/Autonomy Engineer to shape the autonomy capability behind next-generation autonomous vehicles. You will mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across autonomy, perception, sensor fusion, and ML, guiding complex challenges from modelling to real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with Systems, Software, Mechatronics, Electronics and Flight Test teams to implement robust autonomy solutions across UAV/UGV/USV platforms, driving architecture and