About this role
About the Role
You will be responsible for developing and deploying key autonomy functions within our interceptor platform, focusing on Guidance, Navigation & Target Tracking, or Control. From algorithm development and system integration to flight testing and field debugging, you will help deliver reliable autonomous capabilities in demanding operational environments.
What is your Day to Day
Mission
- Depending on your background and expertise, your primary focus will be in Guidance, Navigation, or Control . You will take ownership of one of these areas while working closely with engineers across the broader GNC stack to deliver a reliable autonomous interceptor system.
- Guidance: Develop and deploy guidance algorithms that convert mission objectives and estimated vehicle and target states/predictions into feasible control commands.
- Develop predictive approaches that account for target motion and maneuvers.
- Navigation & Target Tracking: Develop and integrate state-estimation, sensor-fusion, and target-approaches that provide reliable states and short-horizon predictions, including sensor fusion and uncertainty modeling.
- Control: Develop and tune flight-control algorithms that translate guidance commands into stable, responsive, and feasible aircraft behavior across the operating envelope.
- Across all three focus areas, you will: Integration: Integrate algorithms with perception, flight-control, simulation, and operator systems through ROS 2, MAVLink, and related interfaces.
- Benchmarking and Validation: Validate performance through simulation, recorded-data replay, SITL/HITL, and flight testing.
- Field Debugging: Analyze real logs, reproduce failures, isolate root causes, and improve the system until it works not only on your machine, but in the field.