Design and implement ship-relative guidance for approach, station keeping, alignment, and terminal recovery.
Develop deck-motion compensation and landing-timing strategies that account for navigation uncertainty, aircraft response, control authority, and touchdown or capture constraints.
Work closely with state estimation and sensing teams to define relative-navigation requirements and ensure recovery guidance remains robust to measurement errors, latency, and intermittent sensor availability.
Implement recovery sequencing and contingency logic, including hold, wave-off, go-around, retry, and responses to degraded or lost navigation.
Develop and integrate real-time guidance software in C++, working with flight controls, autonomy, embedded software, and recovery-system teams.
Lead ground and flight test planning and execution for X-BAT, shaping test strategy and providing technical leadership across the program.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead ground and flight test campaigns for X-BAT, including test planning, execution, post-test analysis, and progressive flight envelope expansion.
Assess aircraft and system readiness and define test objectives, test points, build-up approaches, success criteria, and instrumentation requirements.
Develop and review test plans, procedures, flight test cards, hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety documentation for developmental ground and flight test operations.
Lead and coordinate pre-flight, flight, and post-flight activities, including aircraft configuration, test briefings, mission control room operations, telemetry monitoring, and go/no-go recommendations.
Provide technical leadership during hover, transition, and forward-flight testing, including integrated evaluations of aircraft systems, flight controls, and autonomy.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM Degree)
Nice to have: 10+ years of experience with developmental and/or operational ground and flight test
Nice to have: Group 4-5 UAS and/or fighter type capability
Nice to have: FAA familiarity
Flight Test Engineer
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 20, 2026
Plan, execute, analyze, and improve ground and flight test operations for next‑gen aircraft systems.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Develop, publish, and execute comprehensive flight test plans, procedures, cards, risk assessments, safety, and readiness reviews
Support integration and test of aircraft systems, payloads, comms/data links, software, ground control systems, and mission equipment
Lead and coordinate pre‑flight, flight, and post‑flight activities, including system configuration, instrumentation, telemetry, data collection and test reports
Analyze ground and flight test data to identify performance trends, anomalies, root causes, and corrective actions
Coordinate with engineering teams to validate requirements, troubleshoot issues, and mature system capabilities
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM Degree)
Nice to have: 10+ years of experience with developmental and/or operational ground and flight test
Nice to have: Group 4-5 UAS and/or fighter type capability
Nice to have: FAA, DoW, and test range flight operations
Internship focused on building, running, and refining MATLAB/Simulink simulations for REGENT’s Seaglider programs, translating test data into accurate models and supporting envelope expansion and on‑water testing.
Responsibilities
Build and run simulations in MATLAB/Simulink
Translate flight and on‑water test data into model improvements
Support envelope expansion on established Seaglider programs
Help ramp up on‑water testing for new programs
Stand up modeling from the ground up for newest program
Lead and own ClearSpace’s Mission Operations and Ground Segment functions, building the organization, defining the roadmap, and ensuring operational readiness across all programmes.
Responsibilities
Embed operations and ground segment considerations from the earliest mission phases
Define, own and evolve the ClearSpace Operations & Ground Segment roadmap
Build, lead and develop the organization across Mission Operations and Ground Segment
Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle across all programmes
Own the Ground Segment architecture and delivery strategy
Requirements
Degree (or equivalent) in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or a closely related discipline; an advanced degree or Chartered Engineer (CEng) status is advantageous
The role involves the development and delivery of high-fidelity threat modeling products in support of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Tasks include kinematic missile modeling, IR signature modeling, data production/analysis, and maintenance/sustainment of software baseline.
Responsibilities
Data engineering and validation of large-scale, multi-dimensional array datasets
Validating simulated data against measured test or flight data
Meticulous verification and validation of large, technical datasets
Systematic root-cause analysis for troubleshooting and diagnostics
Legacy and custom code debugging in Python, MATLAB, or C++
Modeling & Simulation Systems Engineer – Level 2 (IR Plume Mod/Sim Systems Engineer) responsible for developing and validating high-fidelity threat models and simulations for the Missile Defense Agency.
Modeling & Simulation Systems Engineer – Level 2 (IR Plume Mod/Sim Systems Engineer) to join Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit.
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