Senior Manager, GNC (R5627)

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

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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