Senior Manager, GNC (R5627)

Job Description:

Required qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years with a Master’s degree; or 5 years with a PhD.
Proven track record of successfully shipping products, showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment.
Experience growing team members a creating / maintaining a high-performance team
Tasking with specific intent on Individual career growth plans and execution
Mentoring team members on career growth
Ability to identify weaknesses on the team and either train or hire to fill any capability gaps
Ability to effectively negotiate work responsibility and alignment between various teams in a cross functional development environment.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering user-centric software solutions.
Experience working with control systems, specifically unmanned aerial systems and/or robotics to include
Outer loop path planning / trajectory synthesis
Integrating software in a hierarchical environment

Preferred qualifications

Familiarity with continuous integration / delivery and test-driven development
Software Autonomy stack architecture and development
Hierarchical design to decouple code responsibility to create a robust, maintainable code base
Outer loop guidance algorithms for trajectory optimization
Controls knowledge with experience in
Linear system analysis to include Gain/Phase margin analysis
Pole placement / LQR algorithms
Filter development and verification / validation
Discrete filters
Kalman filters
C++ and Python coding experience