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About the Role
Join a defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems. As the senior technical anchor for controls, you will shape precision pointing and tracking architecture, from theory and simulation through real-world hardware testing.
Responsibilities
- Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate operation, and stage handoffs.
- Develop Kalman, interacting multiple model, and nonlinear filters that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into latency-compensated aimpoint estimates.
- Build line-of-sight stabilization and jitter-rejection methods, including inertial stabilization, feedforward, and adaptive or notch filtering for structural modes.
- Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision performance against dynamic targets in field tests.
- Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures, using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
- Analyze stability and robustness under disturbances and parameter variation, and integrate controls with tracking, engagement sequencing, and safety logic.
- Deploy control algorithms to embedded targets, collaborate on kilohertz-rate loops, and compare field test results with simulation predictions.
- Provide technical review across controls and sensor integration, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience closing loops on precision pointing, tracking, or stabilization hardware.
- PhD-level depth in control theory and estimation.
- Proficiency in robust control, including H-infinity, mu-synthesis, and LQG.
- Proficiency in optimal estimation such as Kalman variants, IMM, and nonlinear observers.
- Experience shipping C or C++ control loops on embedded or RTOS targets.
- Experience working with MATLAB/Simulink and Python.
- Background in sensor fusion.
- Background in multi-rate and sampled-data design.
- Background in real-time hardware-in-the-loop validation.
- Background in system identification.
- Background in structural dynamics.
- Ability to serve as the controls technical anchor on a small team.
- Directed-energy or high-energy laser experience is an advantage.
- Active security clearance, or ability to obtain one, is an advantage.
Skills
- Control theory
- Estimation
- Robust control
- H-infinity
- Mu-synthesis
- LQG
- Kalman filters
- IMM filters
- Nonlinear observers
- C++
- Embedded systems
- RTOS
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Python
- Sensor fusion
- Multi-rate design
- Sampled-data design
- Hardware-in-the-loop validation
- System identification
- Structural dynamics
- Directed-energy systems
- Precision pointing
- Tracking
- Stabilization
Location
- San Francisco, United States
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $250,000 to $315,000 annually
Benefits
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship
About the Company
- Defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems.