Lead GNC Engineer - Guided Projectile Flight Systems

Auriga Space; Los Angeles, California (CA, MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Auriga Space is seeking a Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer to lead the GNC discipline for guided projectiles launched from our electromagnetic launch systems. You will own the full GNC stack—from trajectory and guidance law design through navigation, state estimation, control law design, six-degree-of-freedom simulation, and flight test.

This is a founding-level role in a fast-moving startup, based onsite at our Garden Grove, CA facility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering or physical science field and 8+ years of applied GNC experience.
• Ownership of guidance and control design through flight, not only simulation.
• Strong foundation in classical and modern control theory, flight dynamics, and 6-DOF rigid body dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Design guidance laws for boost, midcourse, and terminal phases, and select architectures for flight projectiles.
• Develop navigation and state estimation architecture including INS/GNSS and Kalman filters.
• Build and maintain a 6-DOF simulation environment and perform robustness analyses.
• Translate GNC algorithms into flight software and support real-time, SIL, and HIL testing.
• Lead post-flight data reconstruction and contribute to model correlation and design reviews.

Skills

GNC design ownership

Six-DOF simulation

State estimation

Trajectory optimization

Control theory

Monte Carlo analysis

Autopilot design

Software-in-the-loop

Hardware-in-the-loop

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Mechanical/EE/Applied Math/Physics

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

6-DOF simulation software

Missile DATCOM

CFD

Wind tunnel testing

Real-time flight software

HIL benches

Job description

Auriga Space is seeking a Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer to lead the GNC discipline for guided projectiles launched from our electromagnetic launch systems. You will own the full GNC stack—from trajectory and guidance law design through navigation, state estimation, control law design, six-degree-of-freedom simulation, and flight test.

This is a founding-level role in a fast-moving startup, based onsite at our Garden Grove, CA facility.