TS/SCI GNC Engineer – Space Missile Autonomy

True Anomaly; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

403K / 401K

Job summary

True Anomaly seeks engineers to own GNC system development for missile platforms, from architecture and algorithms to verification and flight testing. You will design and validate flight software, sensor fusion algorithms, and guidance laws for multiple flight regimes.

The role requires strong background in control theory, real-time embedded systems, and hands-on HIL/SIL experience. On-site work near Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO is expected with security clearances considered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering/physics field.
• Experience with GNC in aerospace/defense, missile systems, interceptors, or guided munitions.
• Strong fundamentals in flight dynamics, controls, and state estimation.

Responsibilities

• Own GNC system development for missile systems: architecture, algorithms, verification, hardware integration, flight tests.
• Design, test, and validate GNC flight software and embedded algorithms across flight regimes.
• Develop navigation and state estimation algorithms with sensor fusion (IMU, GPS/INS, seeker data).
• Develop and implement guidance laws and autopilot designs; validate via high-fidelity simulation and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Create high-fidelity simulation environments for SIL/HIL and mission analysis across flight envelope.
• Apply control analysis to ensure stability margins and robust performance.
• Develop terminal guidance for intercepts including tracking, miss distance, and time-to-go.

Skills

C++

Python

Real-time control

Flight software

Sensor fusion

State estimation

GNC concepts

Algorithms

Embedded systems

Simulation

Hardware-in-the-loop

Kalman filters

Telemetry analysis

Education

Bachelors in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, physics

Masters or PhD in aerospace/control systems

Tools

MISSILE DATCOM

MIL-STD-1553

MIL-STD-1760

Flight simulators

GNC hardware-in-the-loop

Job description

True Anomaly seeks engineers to own GNC system development for missile platforms, from architecture and algorithms to verification and flight testing. You will design and validate flight software, sensor fusion algorithms, and guidance laws for multiple flight regimes.

The role requires strong background in control theory, real-time embedded systems, and hands-on HIL/SIL experience. On-site work near Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO is expected with security clearances considered.