Sr. Guidance Engineer
Reliable Robotics Corporation17 hours ago
Base Salary
$215k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define guidance system capabilities and requirements with operations and pilot teams.
- Design guidance features integrating with flight-control systems and pilot displays.
- Implement flight guidance algorithms in simulation and flight software using C/C++ and Python.
- Reduce and analyze simulation, laboratory, and flight-test data.
- Evaluate guidance system performance through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight-test cases.
- Travel approximately 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, robotics, or an equivalent field.
- 8+ years of professional experience developing guidance or motion-planning algorithms for real-time vehicle systems.
- Professional software development experience in C/C++ and Python.
- Excellent ability to communicate system behavior to end users.
- Preferred: PhD in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a similar advanced field.
- Preferred: technical expertise in motion planning, control systems, probability theory, or optimization.
- Preferred: experience developing software for safety-critical applications.
- Preferred: experience with Flight Management System certification.
- Preferred: current pilot, instrument, or commercial rating.
Benefits
- Approximately 10% travel is required.
- The role may require access to U.S. export-controlled information, with employment contingent on compliance with U.S. export-control laws and applicable authorization requirements.
About Reliable Robotics Corporation
Reliable Robotics builds certified autonomous flight systems to enable remote operation of fixed-wing aircraft for cargo and, eventually, passenger use. The privately held company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, also operates Reliable Airlines, a cargo feeder flying since 2022 in Albuquerque for a major cargo carrier. Its business model spans autonomy hardware/software, certification efforts, and operating cargo flights to validate and commercialize the technology for aviation customers.