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Staff GNC Engineer

3 weeks, 1 day ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Robotics Engineer
Software Development
MATLAB
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Archer

Archer

Archer Technologies provides enterprise governance, risk, and compliance solutions through the Archer SmartSuite framework. Additionally, Archer is designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for urban air mobility networks....

Construction & Engineering
251-1K
Founded 2018
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Description

  • Design and implement flight control algorithms for electric VTOL aircraft.
  • Work cross-functionally to align GNC requirements with other system requirements.
  • Influence leadership decisions affected by GNC system tradeoffs and performance.
  • Develop creative methods to verify complex systems and software efficiently.
  • Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements.
  • Run trade studies to inform aircraft design and system architecture.
  • Work with the Flight Test team to design tests that safely evaluate vehicle capabilities.
  • Improve the fidelity and capabilities of vehicle and environment simulation models.
  • Analyze full-scale and subscale flight data to improve models.
  • Author software requirements and test cases for GNC software.
  • Collaborate with Systems Engineering to decompose higher-level requirements.
  • Work with Systems Safety and Systems Engineering to identify and correct flight control system deficiencies.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of vehicle dynamics, optimization, and both classical and modern control theory.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field with at least 9 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
  • Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink.
  • Experience verifying GNC systems in simulation and on hardware (preferred).
  • Expertise with aircraft or rotorcraft performance and handling qualities requirements (preferred).
  • Experience with envelope protection (preferred).
  • Experience modeling physics, sensors, and actuators (preferred).
  • Experience applying system identification techniques to aircraft or rotorcraft (preferred).
  • Knowledge of fault detection and isolation techniques (preferred).
  • Experience implementing trajectory generation and/or optimization algorithms (preferred).
  • Experience flight testing piloted and/or autonomous aircraft or rotorcraft (preferred).
  • Piloting experience with aircraft or rotorcraft (preferred).
  • Work authorization note: Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at this time.

Benefits

  • Base pay targeted between $175,000 and $220,000.
  • Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with physical or mental disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs.
  • Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
  • Candidate privacy protections through Archer’s Candidate Privacy Policy.

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