GNC Engineer

Role: GNC Engineer

Location: Paris

A fast-growing startup in the Greater Paris region places themselves in the Aerospace industry. Their team is small, technical and focused on shipping real hardware that flies. They're growing the engineering team and looking for someone to take ownership of GNC.

The role

You’ll lead Guidance, Navigation and Control for our unmanned vehicles. The goal is dependable pilotless operation across varied conditions, backed by the evidence needed to satisfy regulators.

What you’ll do

• Model vehicle dynamics and build simulation environments
• Design, tune and validate controllers and guidance laws, with a focus on robustness to disturbances
• Develop state estimation and sensor fusion, including handling degraded or failed sensors
• Plan and run flight-test campaigns, and use the data to refine models and controllers
• Implement GNC software and integrate it with embedded systems
• Contribute to safety cases and technical documentation for regulatory approval

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional GNC experience in drones, aerospace or automotive
• Experience on a team that took a drone or aerospace product through to market
• Strong grounding in control theory and estimation (EKF, PID, LQR/MPC)
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink and Python, plus C/C++ for embedded implementation
• Hands-on flight-test experience
• Familiarity with fault-tolerant design and safety or regulatory assurance

Nice to have

• Experience with open-source flight stacks and SITL/HITL testing
• Experience with unmanned aircraft regulation in Europe

What we offer

• Real ownership of a core system on a product that already flies
• A collaborative, hands-on team that moves quickly
• A competitive salary and a package discussed at interview