Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

March 7

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $136k - $212k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Wing offers drone delivery. Our fleet of lightweight, autonomous delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes in minutes. Wing delivery is safe, sustainable, and easy to integrate with existing delivery approaches.

Drones • On-Demand Delivery • delivery • last mile • logistics

51 - 200 employees

💰 Corporate Round on 2019-03

📋 Description

Wing is looking for a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, to join our GNC team. This role will be based in Palo Alto, CA. As a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, you'll leverage your expertise in aircraft and system dynamics, simulation, estimation and control theory, and autonomy to craft safety-critical solutions to enable highly-reliable operations of self-flying aircraft in diverse operating environments. Create innovative, reliable, and efficient GNC solutions to enable new and challenging aircraft capabilities. Have ownership and cognisance of GNC systems throughout the complete development lifecycle, from initial idea to system deployment in business operations. Work closely with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high level performance goals are met and business objectives are achieved. Perform detailed GNC analyses of system designs, analyze research and development test data, communicate these results to the Wing team. Support of development and execution of GNC system integration and test efforts, including flight test.

🎯 Requirements

M.S in Controls Engineering (or similar) or equivalent practical experience. 3-6+ years of experience in GNC technology and product development, deployment and transition into full rate production. Technical depth in at least one of the following areas: aircraft dynamics and control, multi-modal sensor fusion, INS/GPS navigation system development, UAV path planning algorithms, and/or GNC simulation and data analysis. Technical knowledge of fault-tolerance in flight control systems, navigation systems, and contingency management. Experience with Matlab, C++, and/or Python. Familiarity with simulation methods, particularly medium to large scale monte carlo testing. Familiarity with real-time embedded platforms. Familiarity with aircraft dynamics, stability and control fundamentals.

🏖️ Benefits

At Wing, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. If you think this position could be a fit but are unsure about applying, we would still love for you to do so! If you have a need that requires accommodation during the interview process due to a disability or special need, please let us know by completing our Candidate Accommodations Request Form.