GNC Engineer (Controls)
Mach Industries16 hours ago
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Summary
Mach Industries is seeking a GNC Engineer (Controls) to join their team in Huntington Beach, CA. The role involves supporting control design and evaluation for fixed-wing aircraft, focusing on the implementation and validation of flight-critical control laws.
About the Role
As a GNC Engineer (Controls), you will be responsible for designing control systems for fixed-wing vehicles, implementing control laws, participating in system identification and aerodynamic model development, executing verification and validation work, and participating in flight-test planning and execution. You will also learn from the controls team and contribute to design/code reviews.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics.
- 0-5 years of experience designing, analyzing, and fielding flight control systems for fixed-wing aircraft or high-performance UAVs.
- Deep knowledge of flight dynamics, stability/controllability, and actuator/sensor modeling.
- Familiarity with modern C++ for embedded real-time implementations; strong MATLAB/Simulink/Python skills for modeling, ID, and analysis.
- Familiarity with verification workflows (SIL/HIL), requirements traceability, and safety reviews.
- Familiarity with modern software workflows (git, code review, issue tracking) and data/telemetry analysis.
Preferred:
- Practical and/or academic experience with modern/MIMO control design (LQR, LQG, LTR), system ID techniques, adaptive control.
- Experience with energy-based control, autothrottle, sideslip/yaw coordination, and advanced control allocation for over-actuated systems.
- Experience integrating with PX4 and ROS 2. Exposure to DO-178C/DO-331/ARP4754A processes or equivalent rigor.
- Comfort optimizing for resource-constrained processors and hard real-time constraints (latency/jitter budgets, numerics).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Opportunities for professional development
Mach Industries
Building next-generation defense systems in stealth
Huntington Beach, CA