- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Principal
- $250K–$315K per year
- 10+ years
Senior technical anchor for controls developing autonomous directed-energy systems, shaping precision pointing and tracking architecture from theory to hardware testing.
Compensation
Base salary range: $250,000 to $315,000 annually.
Responsibilities
- Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate operation, and stage handoffs.
- Develop Kalman, interacting multiple model, and nonlinear filters that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into latency-compensated aimpoint estimates.
- Build line-of-sight stabilization and jitter-rejection methods, including inertial stabilization, feedforward, and adaptive or notch filtering for structural modes.
- Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision performance against dynamic targets in field tests.
- Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures, using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
Requirements
- PhD-level depth in control theory and estimation
- Nice to have: Directed-energy
- Nice to have: high-energy laser
- Nice to have: active security clearance