Responsibilities
- Define system-level requirements for automated flight and flight control systems
- Collaborate with pilots and operations personnel to create flight test strategies, resolve issues, and share design changes
- Create and evaluate flight control laws from early concept through final implementation and certification phases
- Build simulation models to assess stability and performance of flight control systems
- Code control algorithms and laws into flight software
- Validate flight software using simulation environments, Monte Carlo analysis, hardware-in-the-loop setups, and actual flight tests
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — positions based in Mountain View, CA, Seattle, WA, or remote with partial on-site requirements
Other
- Staff based at the Mountain View, CA headquarters can anticipate minimal travel obligations
- Employees located in Seattle, WA or working remotely should expect approximately 20% travel
- This role involves access to technology regulated by U.S. export control regulations
- Employment offers are conditional upon the candidate’s ability to comply with U.S. export control laws
- All candidates must submit documentation verifying legal status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person, including nationality details if applicable
- For individuals who are not U.S. persons—defined as someone who is not a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158—and who require government authorization to access export-controlled information, the company reserves the right not to pursue export licensing and may discontinue the hiring process accordingly
