Senior GNC Engineer at Icarus

Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontier and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere. Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere. Design, implement, and fly guidance, navigation, and control systems for long-endurance stratospheric aircraft Own the GNC stack end to end: modeling, simulation, control law design, estimation, tuning, validation, and flight test Develop and maintain vehicle dynamics models and simulation environments Design and tune controllers for launch, climb, station-keeping, loiter, descent, and recovery Integrate GNC tightly with avionics, sensors, propulsion, and autonomy software Debug and iterate rapidly using flight data, hardware-in-the-loop, and field testing Support integration, production bring-up, and flight operations in the desert 2+ years working on real GNC systems for aircraft, UAVs, spacecraft, or similarly complex dynamic systems Strong fundamentals in dynamics, controls, estimatio