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About the Role

Astro Mechanica is seeking a GNC engineer to take ownership of guidance and control systems for a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft. This role involves working from first principles, collaborating with other engineering disciplines, and making practical trade-offs to ensure hardware flies successfully. The ideal candidate is motivated by building robust, testable, and flight-ready control architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement guidance, navigation, and control systems for products
• Engage in multi-disciplinary aircraft trades and help define the overall system architecture
• Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models for analysis and validation
• Develop tooling to automate control design, Monte Carlo simulations, and simulation validation
• Collaborate with peers across engineering disciplines to define control schemes and mechanisms
• Support flight and ground test operations
• Conduct post flight/test reviews and correlate performance with analysis for continuous improvement

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in robotics, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline
• 2+ years of professional experience in GNC development for an aerospace or autonomous vehicle program
• Experience with dynamics, modeling, and simulation
• Experience with software development best practices
• Ambition to work in a fast-paced environment

Skills

• Rust
• C++
• Python

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2+ years

Education Level

• Master's degree
• PhD

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) program
• Transparent stock option plan
• Self-managed and flexible time-off policy
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Sick time

About the Company

• Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
• Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
• We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
• We are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies—including Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system—with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel.
• In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
• We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
• We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
• We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

Equal Opportunity

• Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer.
• We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.