Full-time jobs in Tucson, AZ

About the role

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a Senior Guidance Navigation & Controls Engineer to lead autopilot design, stability analysis, and control law development for Sceptre across its full flight envelope. This role owns the flight control system architecture from gun-launch transient dynamics through supersonic and hypersonic ramjet cruise, including control surface sizing, actuator specification, and control law design. You will be the aerodynamic-control interface owner, the technical lead for all GN&C autopilot milestone content, and the program's authority on vehicle stability, control authority, and autopilot performance.

What you'll bring

• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• B.S. or M.S. in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• 8 or more years of flight dynamics and control law design experience on guided munitions, missiles, or high-performance aerospace vehicles.
• Demonstrated expertise in classical and modern control design such as PID, LQR, H-infinity, mu-synthesis, gain scheduling, and/or modeling following control.
• Strong background in 6-DOF simulation and model integration for control law evaluation.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink for control law design, linear analysis, system identification and nonlinear simulation.
• Experience with stability analysis and robustness verification under model uncertainty.
• A flight controls engineer who can design a gain-scheduled autopilot for a supersonic ramjet system from first principles and defend the stability margins at a CDR.
• Someone who understands gun-launch dynamics and can define what the control system must do in the first 50 milliseconds of flight.
• A technically rigorous lead who owns the aerodynamic-controls interface and can identify control design risk early from aero data quality.
• A high-ownership GN&C engineer who can deliver verified control laws and close formal stability margin requirements at a TRR.
• Experience with fin-stabilized or spin-stabilized gun-launched projectile dynamics including Magnus effect, spin-yaw coupling, and dynamic stability derivatives.

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