Principal Engineer - Guidance & Control

About the company

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead development of guidance algorithms, control laws, autopilot functions, and control-allocation systems.
• Perform flight-dynamics modeling, stability analysis, robustness assessment, and nonlinear simulation.
• Develop and validate solutions using MATLAB/Simulink and relevant engineering tools.
• Verify and validate through simulation, SIL/PIL/HIL, ground testing, and flight testing.
• Investigate control-system anomalies, performance issues, and simulation-to-test discrepancies.
• Maintain requirements traceability and technical documentation, and support safety and airworthiness compliance.
• Lead technical work packages and engineering reviews, and mentor engineers.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, aeronautical, electrical, mechanical, or control engineering, robotics, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant aerospace or safety-critical control-system engineering experience.
• Hands-on control-law, guidance-system, autopilot, or control-allocation experience.
• Strong knowledge of flight dynamics, control theory, stability, robustness, and nonlinear simulation.
• Practical MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent-tool experience; experience in control-system verification, simulation, and testing.
• Ability to independently lead complex engineering activities.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in guidance, control systems, aerospace engineering, flight control, robotics, or a related field.
• Experience with aircraft, UAVs, missiles, spacecraft, or other dynamic aerospace platforms.
• Knowledge of advanced control techniques, gain scheduling, uncertainty analysis, and guidance algorithms.
• Experience with Python, C/C++, Stateflow, and embedded real-time systems.
• Exposure to SIL/PIL/HIL, ground and flight testing, and simulation-to-test correlation.
• Familiarity with aerospace safety, airworthiness, software assurance, and configuration management.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting technical design reviews.