# Senior GNC Engineer - Flight Controls at Pivotal

- Company: Pivotal
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.pivotal.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/pivotal/d876a807-dfce-47c8-9c1e-ec8c59b23f47?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pivotal-senior-gnc-engineer-flight-controls/

## About the role

The GNC team at Pivotal develops the flight control and navigation algorithms that let our aircraft fly safely and precisely, including on the Helix family of aircraft. We are looking for a Senior GNC Engineer to design, tune, and verify flight control laws for our aircraft, taking them from analysis and simulation through flight test. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience designing and tuning flight control laws that were evaluated in flight test or piloted simulation
- Solid understanding of aircraft flight dynamics, including modeling, linearization, and dynamic stability modes
- Strong foundation in classical and modern control theory, including frequency-domain analysis, state-space methods, and stability margins
- Experience with multi-loop flight control architectures, such as cascaded loops, explicit model following, or dynamic inversion
- Experience using simulation to verify control law performance, including Monte Carlo or worst-case analysis
- Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink for control design, modeling, and simulation

Tags: General Engineering

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