Senior Engineer, Flight Controls - X-BAT (R4814)

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      "content": "\n<li>Design and implement flight control laws and supporting logic across multiple flight regimes.</li>\n<li>Build and mature high-fidelity 6DOF simulation environments used for control development and ensure accurate pre-flight performance predictions</li>\n<li>Execute verification activities, including linear analysis, Monte Carlo campaigns, disturbance/sensitivity/degraded operation testing, and HIL validation</li>\n<li>Diagnose and resolve simulation-to-test mismatches, including unidentified dynamics and modeling gaps</li>\n<li>Support flight test operations and contribute to rapid iteration between flights</li>\n<li>Work closely with propulsion, aero, actuation, sensors, state estimation, and autonomy teams to ensure accurate integrated system performance in the 6DOF simulation environment.</li>\n"
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      "text": "Required qualifications:",
      "content": "\n<li>5+ years of experience in flight controls / GNC on real flight vehicles.</li>\n<li>Experience performing one or more of the following technical flight control assignments:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"171\">Vehicle Modeling and Simulation:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"206\">Demonstrated experience implementing time-accurate mathematical models of the vehicle aerodynamics, mass properties, fuel system, propulsion system, sensors, actuators into a 6DOF simulation environment.</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"415\">Control Law Design:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"437\">Demonstrated experience designing inner and outer loop control laws for fixed-wing aircraft using classical or modern control techniques.</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"580\">Control Allocation:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"602\">Demonstrated experience designing control allocation algorithms for over-actuated systems handling actuator saturation, rate limits, failures and degradation.</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"766\">Guidance and Autonomy Integration:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"803\">Demonstrated experience designing and testing real-time trajectory generation algorithms.</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"898\">Verification and Validation:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"929\">Demonstrated experience executing linear, nonlinear, and Monte Carlo Analyses in a 6DOF simulation environment.</li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1044\">Demonstrated experience executing sensitivity studies, worst-case disturbance analysis, and/or failure detection and accommodation studies validating control robustness against requirements.</li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1238\">Demonstrated experience characterizing aircraft flying qualities against tailored MIL-HDBK-516 Section 6 requirements within a high-fidelity 6DOF Simulation framework.</li>\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1409\">Demonstrated experience in generating flight control and simulation data artifacts for Airworthiness Certification (Simulation Description Document, Flying Qualities Report).</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1589\">Flight Test Support:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1612\">Demonstrated experience in test planning, envelope expansion strategy, and test point selection.</li>\n\n\n<li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1714\">Post-Flight Analysis:\n\n</li><li data-renderer-start-pos=\"1738\">Demonstrated experience analyzing flight data, comparing predicted vs actual behavior, performing system identification and model refinement tasks, and implementing control design or simulation model updates.</li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>Strong background in aircraft flight dynamics and 6DOF simulation</li>\n<li>Proficiency in C++, MATLAB/Simulink, and/or Python.</li>\n<li>Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance</li>\n"
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