Engineer II, Flight Controls - X-BAT (R4816)

You will contribute to the flight control system for XBAT, with responsibility for delivering stable, predictable, and operationally robust performance across all phases of flight, including vertical takeoff, hover, transition out-bound, wing-borne flight, transition in-bound, and precision recovery.

3+ years of experience working flight controls / GNC on real flight vehicles.

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 within a high-fidelity 6DOF Simulation framework.

Strong background in aircraft flight dynamics and 6DOF simulation

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

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

Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.

Autonomous systems or missile/UAV GNC background

Familiarity with:

Sensor and air data systems

CI/CD pipelines and modern DevSecOps practices

Experience with HIL or integrated simulation/test environments and Linux-based development workflows (Git, etc.)

Experience operating in rapid development environments with tight iteration loops between simulation and test