Guidance Navigations & Controls Engineer

Executive Recruiting Group • Broomfield, CO

1d • $120,000 - $175,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Guidance, Navigations & Controls Engineer to develop and implement advanced control laws, stability augmentation, and dynamic modeling for air vehicles. The role focuses on ensuring robust maneuvering, altitude control, and successful transitions between flight phases.

The engineer will develop and implement flight control algorithms for boost and ramjet phases; analyze vehicle stability and dynamic behavior during boost, transition, and sustain; build and validate linear and nonlinear vehicle-dynamics models; integrate control laws with propulsion inputs and guidance requirements; support simulation-environment development; and conduct hardware-in-the-loop simulations and software testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Controls, or Systems Engineering.
• 3–10+ years of experience in flight control, stability, or vehicle dynamics.
• Demonstrated experience with control-law development and implementation.
• Strong skills in MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or equivalent modeling tools.
• Experience with multi-phase flight regimes and dynamic simulations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with missile, UAV, or high-speed flight control systems.
• Background in model validation, HIL simulation, or embedded-control testing.
• Familiarity with propulsion/vehicle interaction during variable-thrust events.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement flight control algorithms for boost and ramjet phases.
• Analyze vehicle stability and dynamic behavior during boost, transition, and sustain.
• Build and validate linear and nonlinear models of vehicle dynamics.
• Integrate control laws with propulsion inputs and guidance requirements.
• Support simulation-environment development using MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or equivalent tools.
• Conduct hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations and software testing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time