Lead Avionics & GNC Engineer for Flight Systems

Metheion Technology & Engineering Consulting; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Metheion Technology & Engineering Consulting seeks an avionics lead to own the avionics system for a free-flying reentry vehicle. You will translate requirements into a flight-capable architecture covering the flight computer, redundant navigation, GNC, and RCS control.

You will drive implementation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight testing, collaborating with systems, propulsion, and simulation engineers while leading a small avionics team in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on aviation flight systems experience delivering flight hardware or software.
• Experience taking avionics from requirements through test and integration.
• Experience with embedded/flight software for a flight computer or GNC.
• Experience across avionics hardware and software interfaces.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Own the avionics system from vehicle-level requirements through flight testing.
• Define avionics interfaces, communication buses, redundancy, fault handling, and data flows.
• Architect and deliver the flight computer, redundant navigation, GNC, and active RCS control.
• Design the navigation and control architecture for GNSS-denied operation.
• Develop and integrate embedded/flight software for the flight computer and GNC stack.
• Lead a small avionics team working on board-level hardware, integration, and testing.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues during integration and testing.

Skills

Flight computers

GNC

GNSS-denied navigation

Autonomous control

Aerospace avionics

Embedded software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Aerospace Engineering

Job description

Metheion Technology & Engineering Consulting seeks an avionics lead to own the avionics system for a free-flying reentry vehicle. You will translate requirements into a flight-capable architecture covering the flight computer, redundant navigation, GNC, and RCS control.

You will drive implementation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight testing, collaborating with systems, propulsion, and simulation engineers while leading a small avionics team in a startup environment.