Lead the Guidance & Control team for the Ranger autonomous aircraft, owning technical direction, roadmap, and delivery of flight control and autonomy capabilities.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Build and lead the Ranger G&C team
Own the G&C development roadmap
Own project execution and delivery
Define and deliver the G&C architecture
Lead integration between flight autonomy and mission autonomy
Requirements
Nice to have: leading development of autonomous fixed-wing aircraft
Nice to have: defining A-GRA-aligned interfaces
Nice to have: building a G&C team
Nice to have: applying flight safety and airworthiness processes
Lead the development, integration, and flight validation of navigation systems for autonomous aircraft and related defense platforms.
Compensation
$250,000—$280,000 USD
Responsibilities
Own the technical architecture, roadmap, execution, and delivery of navigation capabilities across requirements, design, implementation, verification, integration, and flight test.
Translate mission objectives and vehicle concepts into navigation requirements, sensor specifications, interface definitions, performance budgets, verification criteria, engineering plans, and team deliverables.
Design, analyze, and mature navigation algorithms, including inertial navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, sensor calibration, alignment, integrity monitoring, and fault detection and isolation.
Develop robust estimation solutions that account for sensor noise, bias, drift, timing errors, misalignment, environmental disturbances, vehicle dynamics, computational constraints, and modeling uncertainty.
Establish rigorous methods for evaluating estimator observability, convergence, consistency, robustness, integrity, and degraded-mode behavior.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field.
Nice to have: Master's degree or Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, controls, robotics, or a related field.
Technical Lead Low Level Test Engineer – Embedded Platform Software
The Low Level Testing Lead will provide technical and people leadership to the team across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, verification and validation, and certification.
Responsibilities
Provide technical and people leadership to the team across the full software development lifecycle
Manage the day-to-day execution of the team to achieve cost, schedule, and scope commitments
Provide technical oversight of software product design, testing activities, and development artifacts
Provide technical direction to suppliers and support coordination across internal and external stakeholders
Contribute directly to development and implementation of embedded software solutions
Nice to have: Experience fielding navigation systems for autonomous fixed-wing aircraft, missiles, or high-performance unmanned systems.
Nice to have: Experience formally leading a small engineering team, managing direct reports, or owning multidisciplinary technical execution.
Nice to have: Expertise in advanced estimation techniques, including extended and unscented Kalman filtering, nonlinear filtering, smoothing, factor graphs, or optimization-based estimation.
Principal Navigation EngineerMach Industries · Huntington Beach, US