Staff Engineer, Flight Controls - X-BAT (R4813)

6+ years of experience in flight controls / GNC on real flight vehicles, with demonstrated contributions from design through test.

Experience performing one or more of the following technical flight control assignments:

Vehicle Modeling and Simulation:

Demonstrated experience implementing time-accurate mathematical models of the vehicle aerodynamics, mass properties, fuel system, propulsion system, sensors, actuators into a 6DOF simulation environment.

Control Law Design:

Demonstrated experience designing inner and outer loop control laws for fixed-wing aircraft using classical or modern control techniques.

Control Allocation:

Demonstrated experience designing control allocation algorithms for over-actuated systems handling actuator saturation, rate limits, failures and degradation.

Guidance and Autonomy Integration:

Demonstrated experience designing and testing real-time trajectory generation algorithms.

Verification and Validation:

Demonstrated experience executing linear, nonlinear, and Monte Carlo Analyses in a 6DOF simulation environment.

Demonstrated experience executing sensitivity studies, worst-case disturbance analysis, and/or failure detection and accommodation studies validating control robustness against requirements.

Demonstrated experience characterizing aircraft flying qualities against tailored MIL-HDBK-516 Section 6 requirements within a high-fidelity 6DOF Simulation framework.

Demonstrated experience in generating flight control and simulation data artifacts for Airworthiness Certification (Simulation Description Document, Flying Qualities Report).

Flight Test Support:

Demonstrated experience in test planning, envelope expansion strategy, and test point selection.

Post-Flight Analysis:

Demonstrated experience analyzing flight data, comparing predicted vs actual behavior, performing system identification and model refinement tasks, and implementing control design or simulation model updates.

Strong background in aircraft flight dynamics and 6DOF simulation

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to mentor and up-skill junior engineers.

Proficiency in C++, MATLAB/Simulink, and/or Python.

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance