Flight Controls Engineer

Estes Aerospace • Vienna, VA

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About The Position

You will design and build the flight control systems for rockets. You'll take your designs from concept all the way through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and live flight test. This role is for engineers who want to close the loop — not just model a system, but actually fly it. There's nothing quite like that first flight test.

Requirements

• Strong background in control theory and flight dynamics
• Experience implementing and validating control systems in simulation
• Comfort working across the hardware/software boundary — you understand both the math and the implementation
• You like to iterate fast and test often, not wait for perfection

Nice To Haves

• Experience with missile guidance or state estimation

Responsibilities

• Design flight control systems for rockets using thrust vector control, aerodynamic surfaces, and novel actuation approaches
• Develop and tune control laws (PID, LQR, nonlinear — whatever the problem calls for)
• Build high-fidelity simulations of your control systems and the vehicles they fly on
• Run hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing to validate your designs
• See your work perform in the real world and feed those results back into your next design

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed