GNC Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Wessling, Bavaria, Germany

Company

hirify.global develops and produces small unmanned aerial systems, including electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, for defense, security, and public-sector applications.

What you will do

• Own a primary focus area in guidance, navigation and target tracking, or control for an autonomous interceptor platform.
• Develop guidance algorithms that convert mission objectives and vehicle and target-state estimates into feasible control commands.
• Build state-estimation, sensor-fusion, target-tracking, and short-horizon prediction functions.
• Develop and tune flight-control algorithms for stable and responsive aircraft behavior across the operating envelope.
• Integrate autonomy algorithms with perception, flight-control, simulation, and operator systems through ROS 2, MAVLink, and related interfaces.
• Validate performance using simulation, recorded-data replay, SITL/HITL, flight testing, and field-log analysis.

Requirements

• Degree in robotics, aerospace, electrical or mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, computer vision, or a comparable technical field.
• Several years of hands-on experience, with relevant student-club, internship, or working-student experience also considered.
• Strong foundations in guidance, control, vehicle kinematics and dynamics, state estimation, optimization, and dynamical systems, with deep expertise in at least one area.
• Strong implementation skills in C++ or Rust and experience with ROS 2.
• Understanding of coordinate frames, quaternions, NED/ENU conventions, timing, and filtering.
• Experience with predictive or interception guidance, PID or model-based control, trajectory optimization, PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, flight testing, or GNSS-denied navigation.

Nice to have

• Experience with system identification, flight-dynamics modeling, target tracking, multi-vehicle autonomy, or structured flight testing.
• Hands-on projects documented with photos, GitHub links, videos, or drawings.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on next-generation defense and autonomous-aircraft technology.
• Fast-paced, agile environment with opportunities to contribute ideas directly.
• Collaboration with experienced engineers and industry pioneers.
• Individual and professional growth opportunities in a globally recognized organization.