Anduril Industries
Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer - Rotorcraft/VTOL
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a GNC Engineer to develop guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous rotorcraft and VTOL platforms. You'll design and validate safety-critical algorithms and architectures across the full development lifecycle, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on cutting-edge defense autonomy systems.
What you'll do
- Develop, implement, and test GNC algorithms and architectures for air vehicle platforms
- Design and assess complete GNC systems integrating vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and control logic
- Conduct simulation and analysis to verify models and performance across operating conditions
- Collaborate with systems, flight software, autonomy, and test engineers on integration and performance
- Participate in design reviews, safety assessments, and system documentation
- Troubleshoot GNC-related issues during design, testing, and operational phases
What they're looking for
- Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) engineering
- Classical and modern control theory with estimation and filtering
- Flight dynamics for VTOL and conventional aircraft
- MATLAB, Simulink, and GNC simulation tools
- Linear dynamic systems analysis and tools development
- System architecture and integration
- Safety-critical autonomous systems design
- Multi-disciplinary system engineering
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience developing GNC solutions for flight systems—what aircraft types or platforms have you worked on?
- Walk us through how you've approached designing a complete GNC architecture; what trade-offs did you consider between vehicle, sensors, actuators, and algorithms?