What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. GNC Flight Software Engineer position at Heaviside Industries?
ABOUT HEAVISIDE INDUSTRIES
Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance. All engineering and manufacturing is conducted in-house in Heaviside’s Los Angeles, CA headquarters and Oslo, Norway office. Heaviside is backed by Interlagos, Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and Ravelin Ventures.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Own the closed-loop guidance and flight-software stack on advanced air programs
- Implement and tune a terminal-phase guidance law on edge compute
- Integrate industrial- or tactical-grade IMUs with bias compensation, vibration rejection, and out-of-band noise suppression
- Build custom flight modes and the offboard MAVLink interface; own the safety-pilot kill-switch path and failsafe matrix
- Stand up Gazebo SITL and full HITL benches with simulated tracker sources
- Plan and run captive-carry, supervised-autonomous, and full-autonomous flight-test campaigns to documented pass/fail outcomes
- Maintain the data contract between the sensing pipeline and the guidance loop: timing, format, quality-of-data flags, dropout behavior
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- BS or MS in Aerospace, Electrical, Robotics, or a control-systems-heavy field — or equivalent shipped-product experience
- 8 years writing autopilot-grade flight software
- Can derive a terminal-phase guidance law from first principles
- Production experience with multi-rate sensor fusion
- Proficient in C and Python
- Tactical or industrial IMU integration experience and a working understanding of inertial-sensor error modeling
- FAA Part 107 (or willing to acquire within 60 days)
- U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62)
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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Heaviside is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Heaviside is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, physical disability or any other legally protected status.