Senior Manager, GNC (R5627)

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Posted about 2 months ago

V-BAT Division

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The Senior Manager of the Guidance and Control team will lead the development and maintenance of control and autonomy algorithms, involving full lifecycle development, integration with various teams, and mentoring team members for growth.

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Job Description

Job Description:

As manager of the Guidance and Control team, you will be responsible for leading and maintaining all of control and autonomy algorithms within the VBAT code base. Team responsibilities are full lifecycle development to include algorithm development, software design and coding, unit tests, component tests, flight software qualification and flight test support. During this lifecycle, the Guidance and Control team must negotiate workshare and integrate solutions tightly with the Hivemind team, the State Estimation team, the Simulation Development team, the Aerodynamics team and the Embedded Software team.

Requirements

Required qualifications:

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years with a Master’s degree; or 5 years with a PhD.

Proven track record of successfully shipping products, showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment.

Experience growing team members a creating / maintaining a high-performance team

Tasking with specific intent on Individual career growth plans and execution

Mentoring team members on career growth

Ability to identify weaknesses on the team and either train or hire to fill any capability gaps

Ability to effectively negotiate work responsibility and alignment between various teams in a cross functional development environment.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering user-centric software solutions.

Experience working with control systems, specifically unmanned aerial systems and/or robotics to include

Outer loop path planning / trajectory synthesis

Integrating software in a hierarchical environment

Preferred qualifications:

Familiarity with continuous integration / delivery and test-driven development

Software Autonomy stack architecture and development

Hierarchical design to decouple code responsibility to create a robust, maintainable code base

Outer loop guidance algorithms for trajectory optimization

Controls knowledge with experience in

Linear system analysis to include Gain/Phase margin analysis

Pole placement / LQR algorithms

Filter development and verification / validation

Discrete filters

Kalman filters

C++ and Python coding experience

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Posted on: Aug 12, 2026
Job type: Full-time
Location: Dallas, TexasOn-site

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