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Staff GNC Engineer – Flight Controls

Pivotal is hiring for Staff GNC Engineer – Flight Controls in Palo Alto, CA. Staff level. First seen October 27, 2026; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Pivotal
Where
Palo Alto, CA
Level
Staff
First seen
October 27, 2026
Listed via
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What the posting says

We are looking for a Staff GNC Engineer to lead flight control law development on an aircraft program: owning the control law architecture and its design, tuning, and verification from simulation through flight test. You will set the technical direction for how our aircraft are controlled in hover, transition, and forward flight. That includes defining the control law architecture and design criteria, using system identification and flight data to improve our models, and making sure the control laws meet stability, performance, and handling qualities requirements. You will also be a team…

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