Pivotal (BlackFly eVTOL)
Senior GNC Engineer - Flight Controls
Palo Alto, CA · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Aerospace
- Industry
- Aerospace
Spec sheet
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Engineering
Senior GNC Engineer at Pivotal (BlackFly eVTOL) in Palo Alto, CA, designing, tuning, and verifying flight control laws for the aircraft. Responsibilities include analysis, tuning with CONDUIT, system identification, and flight test support.
Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering discipline
Required
- flight control laws
- tuning and verification
- CONDUIT
- system identification
- Monte Carlo
- flight test support
- mentoring or leadership
Preferred
- VTOL/rotorcraft/eVTOL flight controls experience
- experience with flight test or piloted simulation
- interdisciplinary collaboration
- signal processing
- modeling and simulation
- team mentorship
Benefits
- medical
- 401k
- PTO
Employer description
About the Role
The GNC team at Pivotal develops the flight control and navigation algorithms that let our aircraft fly safely and precisely, including on the Helix family of aircraft. We are looking for a Senior GNC Engineer to design, tune, and verify flight control laws for our aircraft, taking them from analysis and simulation through flight test.
You will own the control laws for specific flight modes and control loops within the architecture set by the team’s technical leads. That includes analysis and tuning with CONDUIT, system identification to support our models, Monte Carlo and mission-level verification, and flight test support. You will work closely with the navigation, firmware, aeromechanical, systems engineering, and flight test teams, and help mentor less experienced engineers.
The ideal candidate is a fully qualified flight controls engineer who works independently, has designed and tuned control laws that were evaluated in flight test or piloted simulation, ideally on VTOL, rotorcraft, or eVTOL aircraft, and brings sound judgment to interpreting analysis and test results.
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