Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer (R4815)
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Full-time
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- Nice to have: full-scale flight test
- Nice to have: VTOL
- Nice to have: vision
- Nice to have: infrared
- Nice to have: lidar