Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engin

Synovix; Woodland (CA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Synovix is seeking two experienced Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineers to support an on-site missile and weapon systems program for a defense customer. The engineers will develop and assess guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion solutions from early analysis through integration and test.

You will design and tune Kalman filters, evaluate flight dynamics, and implement autopilot functions, with MATLAB/Simulink trade studies and six-degree-of-freedom integration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in GNC, estimation, controls, navigation, or flight dynamics.
• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, applied math, physics, or related field.
• Strong foundation in dynamics, control theory, state estimation, numerical methods, and linear algebra.
• Hands-on MATLAB/Simulink development.
• Experience communicating results via technical docs and reviews.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance if required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, and mature guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion algorithms for missile and weapon system applications.
• Design and tune Kalman filter-based estimators, including extended or unscented approaches where appropriate.
• Develop and evaluate flight dynamics, navigation error models, autopilot functions, guidance laws, and control-system performance.
• Use MATLAB and Simulink for trade studies, sensitivity analyses, Monte Carlo assessments, and requirements verification; integrate with six-degree-of-freedom and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Analyze system performance, document recommendations, and support technical reviews; establish GNC architecture, lead trades, mentor engineers, and coordinate across systems, software, algorithms, modeling, hardware, and test teams.

Skills

GNC experience

Dynamics

Control theory

State estimation

Numerical methods

Linear algebra

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace/mechanical/electrical engineering or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

C/C++

Python

Job description

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Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer

Woodland Hills, CA, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 1036

Salary Range: $121,875.44 To $214,390.20 Annually

Job Title: Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer

Position Overview

Synovix is seeking two experienced Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineers to support an on-site missile and weapon systems program for a defense customer. The engineers will develop and assess guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion solutions from early analysis through integration and test.

What You Will Do

• Develop, analyze, and mature guidance, navigation, control, estimation, and sensor-fusion algorithms for missile and weapon system applications.


• Design and tune Kalman filter-based estimators, including extended or unscented approaches where appropriate to the solution.


• Develop and evaluate flight dynamics, navigation error models, autopilot functions, guidance laws, and control-system performance.


• Use MATLAB and Simulink for trade studies, sensitivity analyses, Monte Carlo assessments, and requirements verification. Integrate algorithms with six-degree-of-freedom and hardware-in-the-loop environments.


• Analyze system performance, document recommendations, and support technical reviews; establish GNC architecture, lead trades, mentor engineers, and coordinate across systems, software, algorithms, modeling, hardware, and test teams.

Required Qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant GNC, estimation, controls, navigation, or flight dynamics experience.


• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a closely related technical discipline.


• Strong foundation in dynamics, control theory, state estimation, numerical methods, and linear algebra.


• Hands-on experience developing and evaluating algorithms in MATLAB and/or Simulink.


• Experience analyzing time-domain and frequency-domain performance and communicating conclusions through technical documentation and reviews.


• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance if required by the program; an active clearance is not required at hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct missile, interceptor, guided weapon, flight control, or aerospace GNC experience.


• Experience with Kalman filtering, inertial navigation, GPS-aided navigation, sensor fusion, target-state estimation, or tracking.


• Experience with six-degree-of-freedom simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, flight envelopes, and performance requirements allocation.


• Working knowledge of C/C++, Python, embedded implementation, or automatic code-generation workflows.


• Experience integrating radar, electro-optical/infrared, inertial, GPS, orother sensor data into a navigation or guidance solution.


• Experience supporting software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, ground test, flight test, or post-test data analysis.

Synovix, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, religious creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, protected Veteran Status, genetics or any other characteristics protected by applicable Federal, State, or Local Law.