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Guidance and Control Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Aug 17, 2026
This job expires in: 27 days

Job Summary

Seeking a remote, full-time Guidance and Control Engineer, the successful candidate will design and implement advanced tracking and navigation solutions for aerospace systems, focusing on target tracking, terminal guidance algorithms, and GPS-denied navigation.

Key responsibilities
  • Design and implement multi-target tracking pipelines and nonlinear estimators for target state and relative geometry
  • Develop terminal guidance laws and image-based detection systems to enhance endgame performance under real-world conditions
  • Create visual-inertial navigation solutions and write real-time C++ code for embedded systems while conducting simulations and performance validation
Required qualifications
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related field
  • 8+ years of experience in developing estimation, tracking, GNC, or seeker algorithms for aerospace or defense systems
  • Proficiency in nonlinear estimation techniques (EKF, UKF, IMM) and multi-target tracking algorithms
  • Experience with real-time C++ programming for embedded systems and sensor fusion across multiple modalities
  • Demonstrated capability in shipping algorithm code to hardware under SWaP-C constraints

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