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Senior GNC Engineer

Inversion · Playa Vista, California, United States

Posted about 2 months ago · $139,000-$199,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
52 days
Inversion's roles stay open a median of 53 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
89% of Inversion's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Inversion
high
59 stale, 0 reposted of 76 open
Hiring momentum
86 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-25

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Inversion's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Inversion.

About this role

As a Senior GNC Engineer at Inversion, you will develop high-fidelity plant models and design flight control systems for advanced reentry vehicles. Your responsibilities will include analyzing flight control loops, managing stability margins, and integrating control designs into flight simulations. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure vehicle-level performance and implement control algorithms in real-time flight software.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Inversion as an employer.

What you need

  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Typically, 5+ years of applicable experience designing and testing control systems for aerospace vehicles
  • Experience building plant models of aerospace systems, including aerodynamic, actuator, and sensor dynamics and controlling open-loop unstable systems
  • Experience with high-rate digital control design, including discretization, sample rate selection, and the management of latency and computational delay
  • Experience developing and exercising 3-DOF and 6-DOF flight simulations
  • Strong fundamentals in classical and modern control theory, including frequency-domain loop shaping, stability margin analysis, and state-space methods

Nice to have

  • Master's or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with autopilot design for reentry, hypersonic, missile, or other high-dynamic-pressure flight systems
  • Experience applying frequency-domain loop shaping to flight control design, including the construction of phase and gain budgets and the management of two-sided stability margins for conditionally stable systems
  • Experience modeling actuator nonlinearities, including rate and position limits, and their effect on stability of unstable plants
  • Experience with flexible-body dynamics and aeroservoelastic effects, including structural mode filtering

What you get

  • The California annual base salary for this role is currently $139,000-$199,000.

Worth weighing

  • Position is on-site at Inversion HQ in Playa Vista, CA.
  • No information on additional benefits or perks beyond salary is provided.
  • Must be eligible to obtain U.S. government security clearance, which may limit some candidates.

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Listed by Inversion on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-25. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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