Stratolaunch
Technical Staff, Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC)
$193K–$256K
Mojave, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s or Doctoral degree (graduate degree preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOW security clearance.
About the job
Provides company-level technical leadership in guidance, navigation, and controls (GNC), guiding architecture and algorithm development and implementation while supporting flight-test program execution.
What you'll do
- Set GNC technical standards, best practices, toolchains, and capability roadmaps.
- Lead or participate in high-impact engineering problem solving and IRAD projects; support proposals and customer-facing efforts.
- Mentor colleagues and support recruiting and hiring.
What they ask for
- In-depth expertise and experience deriving and implementing GNC architectures, with demonstrated technical leadership and high-impact problem-solving.
- Experience proposing and leading IRAD projects; ability to derive GNC requirements from vehicle constraints and mission objectives and support system sizing and trade studies.
- Experience with embedded systems and RTOS / FPGA implementation of algorithms; familiarity with estimation and data fusion, air vehicle navigation, and autopilot architectures.
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOW security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with hypersonic vehicle development and GNC architectures for high-supersonic or hypersonic systems.
- Familiarity with systems engineering, MBSE, and requirements verification through test.
Pay
$193,000-$256,000 USD base salary
Tools
RTOS, FPGA, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), Git, C++, MATLAB/Simulink, Python
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