Flight Controls Engineer - UAV GNC & Flight Test Expert

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is seeking a Flight Controls Engineer for Production Programs to support our Flight Technologies group in San Diego (Poway), CA.

You will work on GNC tasks for UAV programs, performing requirements development, software integration, simulation analysis, and flight data evaluation. The role requires a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering and two or more years of engineering experience, with strong C/C++, MATLAB, and Python skills, plus

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline and two or more years of engineering experience with a bachelor's degree.
• Degree in aerospace/aeronautical, electrical, mechanical, or related engineering field is highly desirable.
• Demonstrates a growing technical understanding and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones.
• Above-average documentation and communication skills.
• Coding in C or C++ programming language.
• MATLAB scripting.

Responsibilities

• Perform GNC-related tasks for varying levels of aircraft modifications, including requirements development, software integration and validation, simulation analysis to support airworthiness risk assessment, flight test planning, and analysis of flight data.
• Evaluate the impact to Flight Controls from system changes, such as new external payloads and software updates, utilizing linear and non-linear analyses, piloted simulation, SIL/HIL testing, and ground/flight testing.
• Ensure new developments comply with system requirements, legacy system performance, and follow industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot flight control anomalies experienced in fielded systems via flight data analysis and simulation, correlating with flight software operation and generating flight software corrective actions.
• Analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of existing aircraft to ensure current flying qualities performance is maintained.
• Comfortable interacting with disciplines closely related to Flight Controls, such as Aerodynamics, Structures, Test Engineers, and Systems Engineers.
• Occasional travel to flight test facilities to support ground and flight test activities.

Skills

C/C++ programming

MATLAB scripting

Python programming

Documentation and communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python

Job description

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is seeking a Flight Controls Engineer for Production Programs to support our Flight Technologies group in San Diego (Poway), CA.

You will work on GNC tasks for UAV programs, performing requirements development, software integration, simulation analysis, and flight data evaluation. The role requires a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering and two or more years of engineering experience, with strong C/C++, MATLAB, and Python skills, plus