Neros
Senior GNC Engineer
$164K–$228K
Torrance, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience developing GNC software for missiles, interceptors, guided munitions, unmanned aircraft, or comparable autonomous vehicles.
About the job
Owns terminal guidance and its control path for unmanned aircraft, delivering accurate engagements against maneuvering targets under realistic operating conditions.
What you'll do
- Develop and own terminal guidance, aimpoint commands, achievable-acceleration management, and interfaces to flight control.
- Deliver guidance or control software to physical aircraft and analyze flight or field-test data, including investigating anomalous engagements.
- Participate in flight or field-test planning, operations, instrumentation, and post-test review.
What they ask for
- Expert knowledge of terminal homing guidance methods and miss-distance analysis against maneuvering targets.
- Demonstrated delivery of guidance or control software on a physical air vehicle that has flown.
- Production proficiency in C++ and Python, including embedded or real-time development under deterministic and latency constraints.
- Working depth in state estimation and sensor fusion, flight dynamics and control, flight-test data analysis, and coordinate frames, timing, and uncertainty.
Nice to have
- Experience with terminal guidance against surface or ground targets, or safety-critical decision logic.
- Experience with deterministic flight-critical software, bit-exact replay, or mature closed-loop evaluation practices.
Pay
$163,500 – $228,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, Kalman, extended Kalman
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