Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike - Advanced Effects

Anduril
California
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 3+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Analytical thinking"]

Join Anduril’s Flight Engineering team to design, develop, test, and implement advanced Guidance, Navigation, and Control architectures for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic autonomous aerospace systems. You’ll work across concept to operation, collaborating with systems, flight software, and test engineers, and contribute to design reviews, simulations, and safety assessments while pursuing cutting-edge GNC solutions.

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Anduril
7 months ago

Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike - Advanced Effects

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Job Summary

Join Anduril’s Flight Engineering team to design, develop, test, and implement advanced Guidance, Navigation, and Control architectures for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic autonomous aerospace systems. You’ll work across concept to operation, collaborating with systems, flight software, and test engineers, and contribute to design reviews, simulations, and safety assessments while pursuing cutting-edge GNC solutions.
Location: California
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop, implement, and test algorithms for guidance, navigation, and control systems in line with project requirements.
  • •Design, implement, and assess the GNC architectures considering all elements, including sensors, actuators, and algorithms.
  • •Participate in all phases of system development, from concept to design, prototyping, testing, and operation.
  • •Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team including systems engineers, flight software engineers, and test engineers to ensure system-wide integration and performance.
  • •Contribute to design reviews, safety assessments, and system documentation.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kCommuter BenefitsRetirement SavingsRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering or related field with focus on dynamics and control
  • •Strong theoretical knowledge of flight mechanics, classical and modern control theory, estimation, and filtering techniques
  • •Experience with developing GNC solutions for flight systems
  • •Proficiency with GNC simulation tools like MATLAB, Simulink and related toolboxes
  • •Familiarization with 6-DOF simulations
Experience:3+ yearsAerospaceDefenseMilitaryAutonomy
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkAnalytical thinking
Certifications:Top Secret clearance
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MATLABSimulinkCC++

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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