Senior GNC Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Alameda, United States

Company

hirify.global builds and operates full-size autonomous cargo aircraft designed to carry two tons of payload over more than a thousand nautical miles.

What you will do

• Own the GNC architecture, including control laws, navigation, guidance modes, and redundancy management.
• Design flight control laws and navigation solutions for all flight phases, including autonomous takeoff, landing, and failure cases.
• Define responses to sensor, actuator, engine, and communications-link failures.
• Set stability and performance requirements, and validate the design across the flight envelope.
• Own 6-DOF simulation fidelity, system identification, model updates, and correlation with flight data.
• Lead verification, flight clearance, envelope expansion, design reviews, certification evidence, and mentoring for GNC engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing guidance, navigation, or control systems for aircraft, spacecraft, or comparable vehicles.
• Experience owning GNC design for a vehicle or major flight phase from requirements through flight.
• Experience with algorithms that have flown on a real vehicle and with flight-test campaigns, including flight clearance and post-flight model correlation.
• Experience designing control or navigation behavior for sensor and actuator failures.
• Experience leading design reviews and setting technical direction for other engineers.

Nice to have

• GNC experience with fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft and autonomous takeoff and landing.
• Experience with redundancy management for flight-control sensors and actuators.
• Experience building simulation environments, model-based development, and autocode under DO-178C and DO-331.
• Experience with flight-control-system certification or military airworthiness.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in controls, dynamics, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage equity alongside a competitive salary.
• Relocation support if applicable.
• Employee health benefit plans and 6% retirement matching.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Free lunches, snacks, and stocked office fridges.
• Access to AI tools and subscriptions.