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GNC Engineer, Navigation-focused

Stratolaunch · Mojave, California, United States

Posted about 3 months ago · $120,500-$158,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
81 days
Stratolaunch's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
98% of Stratolaunch's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Stratolaunch
high
60 stale, 1 reposted of 60 open
Hiring momentum
83 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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

About this role

As a GNC Engineer at Stratolaunch, you will focus on the development of hypersonic vehicle flight control systems, specifically in navigation. Your daily responsibilities will include designing and evaluating advanced algorithms, developing navigation models and simulations, performing analyses to verify designs, and contributing to the overall flight control system. You will also communicate regularly with the Vehicle Management System and GNC Leads, ensuring the integrity and progress of projects.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
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 Stratolaunch as an employer.

What you need

  • Experience with navigation system design, development and testing on aerospace systems
  • Experience in Kalman filtering, Extended Kalman filtering, and other estimation techniques
  • Experience implementing tightly coupled GPS aided strapdown navigation solutions
  • Experience building navigators to operate in contested environments and resilience approaches
  • Experience with inertial measurements systems and common errors, drifts, and biases
  • Experience developing and anchoring navigation simulation models to flight test data

Nice to have

  • Experience implementing and troubleshooting closed loop GPS simulations in HIL environments
  • Experience fusing multiple navigation aiding sources including non-GPS based data sources
  • Experience with alternative aiding approaches for denied or degraded environments (e.g. TDOA)
  • Experience implementing mitigations to electronic attack, and navigation signal spoofing in hardware and software for navigation systems
  • Experience with cold start, warm start, and hot start for GPS systems

What you get

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
  • Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
  • 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
  • Tuition reimbursement

Worth weighing

  • Position based in Mojave, CA with potential for hybrid work arrangement
  • Travel estimated to be <5%
  • Base salary and leveling are case-by-case, based on various factors
  • No salary range provided for the Principal level, only for Sr and Staff levels

Summarised from Stratolaunch's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Stratolaunch on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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