Senior Staff Engineer, Flight Controls - X-BAT (R4812)

In this role, you will own 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.

VTOL or transition aircraft experience where control blending and allocation were critical to success

Autonomous systems or missile/UAV GNC background

Experience with flight safety, airworthiness, and mission assurance

Familiarity with:

Sensor and air data systems

Fault-tolerant or adaptive control

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