- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Principal
- $250K–$315K per year
- 10+ years
Lead controls engineering for precision pointing and tracking in autonomous directed-energy systems.
Compensation
Base salary range: $250,000 to $315,000 annually.
Responsibilities
- Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors
- 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
- Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects
- Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures
Requirements
- PhD-level depth in control theory and estimation