Demo

GNC Flight Control Engineer

Talon Analytics
Tucson, AZ Full Time
POSTED ON 3/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/4/2025

Talon is a small business staffing and engineering firm providing innovative, end-to-end, rapid turn solutions to our government and commercial clients. Founded in 2019, Talon employs over 150 Aerospace and Defense engineers and other support staff to solve problems for a variety of applications to include aircraft, ballistics, cybersecurity, motorsports, armor development, biological systems, missiles, and warheads. Talon has an office in Tucson, AZ that is providing staffing solutions, technical services support, and manufacturing to Fortune 500 companies.

Position Role Type : Hybrid, Full - time, Some travel is required

Location : Tucson, AZ with travel to SoCal

GNC Flight Control Engineer Job Description :

Talon Analytics is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Guidance Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to join our Vehicle Engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals in SoCal, however will primarily be working remotely from Tucson, full-time for 6 months. Some travel is required. The GNC Flight Control Engineer will design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform GNC of manned aircraft. The Guidance, Navigation and Control Group is responsible for all requirements, trade studies, algorithm designs and performance analyses required to develop products that navigate, guide and fly precisely and accurately.

Primary Qualifications :

  • Experience with navigation functions including the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality
  • Experience with guidance functions including the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation, or trajectory
  • Experience as a technical fellow or other technical lead within GNC work.
  • Developed, tested and delivered code for a guided munition or other flight systems.
  • Knowledge of designing, developing, and implementing simulation software to test and verify mission requirements for air vehicles
  • C / C and / or Python Programming Skills
  • Proficient using Simulink to model dynamic systems
  • Recent task management experience in an engineering development environment (schedule and budget tracking / work package management).
  • Experience as a technical fellow or other technical lead within GNC work.

Must Have Qualifications :

  • Proactive, self-starting, independent, flexible engineer with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Developed and demonstrated advanced aided navigation solutions with strapdown inertial measurement units (IMU's).
  • Principal Engineer : Bachelor of Science (BS) in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science (MS) in a STEM discipline and 3 years of relevant experience
  • Sr Principal Engineer : BS in a STEM discipline and 9 years of relevant experience; OR MS in a STEM discipline and 7 years of relevant experience
  • Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance prior to the commencement of employment
  • Experience developing and verifying models of concept flight systems and subsystems for Navigation, upfinding, and air data estimation solutions.
  • Proficiency with modeling and simulation using Simulink and analysis and optimization in Matlab.
  • Knowledge of fixed-wing aircraft flight dynamics
  • Experience using linear control principles and tools to design feedback control systems
  • Compensation :

  • Offering a competitive hourly wage
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Full-time schedules available
  • 401K match
  • Talon is An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

    If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
    Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

    What is the career path for a GNC Flight Control Engineer?

    Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the GNC Flight Control Engineer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
    Income Estimation: 
    $79,473 - $93,666
    Income Estimation: 
    $90,372 - $103,622
    Income Estimation: 
    $61,825 - $80,560
    Income Estimation: 
    $90,032 - $105,965
    Income Estimation: 
    $85,996 - $102,718
    Income Estimation: 
    $79,482 - $102,763
    Income Estimation: 
    $96,240 - $123,168
    Income Estimation: 
    $115,522 - $153,258
    Income Estimation: 
    $96,240 - $123,168
    Income Estimation: 
    $120,579 - $154,482
    Income Estimation: 
    $115,522 - $153,258
    Income Estimation: 
    $143,102 - $186,922
    Income Estimation: 
    $177,126 - $242,319
    Income Estimation: 
    $120,579 - $154,482
    Income Estimation: 
    $143,102 - $186,922
    View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

    Job openings at Talon Analytics

    Talon Analytics
    Hired Organization Address Tucson, AZ Full Time
    Tucson, AZ | On-Site Position Talon Analytics is seeking an organized and tech-savvy Travel Coordinator to manage corpor...
    Talon Analytics
    Hired Organization Address Mooresville, NC Full Time
    Mooresville, NC, On-Site Position Talon Analytics is seeking a diligent and detail-oriented AP / AR Accounting Clerk to ...
    Talon Analytics
    Hired Organization Address Tucson, AZ Full Time
    Talon is a small business staffing and engineering firm providing innovative, end-to-end, rapid turn solutions to our go...
    Talon Analytics
    Hired Organization Address Tucson, AZ Full Time
    Talon is a small business staffing and engineering firm providing innovative, end-to-end, rapid turn solutions to our go...

    Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other GNC Flight Control Engineer jobs in the Tucson, AZ area that may be a better fit.

    Flight Control Law Engineer

    VirtualVocations, Tucson, AZ

    Sales Associate - PT

    GNC, Tucson, AZ

    AI Assistant is available now!

    Feel free to start your new journey!