Team Lead GNC

Destinus is an aerospace technology company founded under the belief that in the future distance shouldnt matter at all. We are therefore building the nearspace vehicle and the associated infrastructure. Moving at the border of Space our hydrogenpowered vehicles are ten times faster than conventional aircraft providing the justintime backbone for logistics ecommerce and supply chain companies who cant wait. We define a new class of fast: our mission is to bring instantly your stuff to the other part of the world and we mean it literally.

Tasks

An exciting opportunity to work as a team lead for GNC solutions in an aerospace technology company. You will have the opportunity to lead a team of passionate GNC engineers and to contribute to GNC design and development activities. Working with crossfunctional teams you will contribute to the Research and Development of guidance and navigation control systems and then on their deployment on final UAV products.

Define the Control Laws and Algorithm Architecture for the onboard automation systems including Flight Controls System and Navigation System.

• Identifying possible failure modes and defining robust contingency Control Laws to maintain safe flight
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including system engineers and mechanical electrical and software engineers to plan design develop and integrate GNC solutions into UAVs.
• Defining and running computer simulations for the platforms. (e.g. Matlab & Simulink).
• Work Package Management of a defined scope: actively driving the project work forward to achieve the agreed deliverables on time and to budget.
• Ensuring the integration of the GNC algorithms with the embedded system and executing validation testing.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Postgraduate degree in one of the following: GNC Engineering Mechatronics Engineering Software Engineering or Aerospace Engineering
• 3 years of industry or postgraduate experience in GNC Engineering
• Strong applied math foundations; ability to derive algorithms related to guidance navigation and control (GNC)
• Experience in linear and nonlinear feedback control system design
• Experience with Kalman filtering
• Experience with sensor fusion algorithms
• Experience with simulation development
• Experience in C development for embedded systems
• Experience with version control systems like Git enabling effective collaboration and code management.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills crucial for algorithm development and data analysis.
• Good communication skills enabling effective collaboration and being able to manage teams of 23 GNC engineers.
• Fluent English Speaker

Benefits

Destinus is an equalopportunity employer: we value diversity in our companies and our teams. We do not discriminate based on age race religion colour country of origin gender sexual orientation or disability status