GNC Engineer: Flight Controls, Simulation & Equity

Cantos Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

4 weeks PTO

Holidays

Health benefits

Fitness stipend

EV charging

Catered meals

Job summary

Castelion is seeking a GNC Engineer to build the algorithms, models, and software that make our vehicles fly. You will work across guidance, navigation, flight controls, and high-fidelity simulation to solve difficult problems in high-speed flight.

Depending on your strengths, you may focus deeply or work across several areas, taking ideas from analysis through software, hardware testing, and flight. This role is ideal for engineers who want broad ownership, hard technical problems, and a direct

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field (Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering).
• Strong fundamentals in dynamics, controls, estimation, numerical methods or simulation.
• Proficient in Rust, C/C++, Python, Julia or similar language.
• Experience solving technical problems through coursework, projects, internships or work experience.
• Ability to communicate technical results clearly and work with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune flight control algorithms for stability and performance across a challenging flight envelope.
• Develop guidance algorithms for trajectory shaping and mission execution.
• Develop navigation and state estimation algorithms.
• Model and analyze actuation systems, including aerodynamic control surfaces and electromechanical actuators.
• Build and improve high-fidelity 6-DOF simulations of vehicle flight.
• Model vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, sensors, actuators, and environmental effects.
• Implement and test GNC algorithms in flight software.
• Support Monte Carlo, SITL, and HITL test environments.
• Support vehicle sizing, performance analysis, and hardware requirements.
• Support flight test planning, prediction, execution, and post-flight analysis.
• Use simulation, hardware, and flight data to improve models and vehicle performance.

Skills

GNC algorithms

Rust

C/C++

Python

Numerical methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Castelion is seeking a GNC Engineer to build the algorithms, models, and software that make our vehicles fly. You will work across guidance, navigation, flight controls, and high-fidelity simulation to solve difficult problems in high-speed flight.

Depending on your strengths, you may focus deeply or work across several areas, taking ideas from analysis through software, hardware testing, and flight. This role is ideal for engineers who want broad ownership, hard technical problems, and a direct