GNC / Autopilot Engineering Manager

About the role

You will own the flight control and navigation stack that keeps autonomous platforms stable, predictable, and precise. This role involves building the control and state-estimation foundation while growing and leading a team of engineers. You will ensure the navigation and control stack performs reliably under demanding, contested conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a fast-expanding team of engineers working on flight control, guidance, and state estimation
• Facilitate and execute the technical direction for the autopilot stack including control theory, sensor fusion, and real-time performance
• Partner with hardware, perception, and systems engineering teams to ensure navigation performance
• Own technical roadmap planning and represent it to leadership
• Bring software engineering best practices such as C4 architecture and clean code principles to the team
• Moderate the peer review process and ensure knowledge sharing
• Drive hiring, mentoring, and career development for the team
• Report on technical risk, schedule, and capacity to leadership
• Drive test and validation strategy from simulation and HIL testing through live trials

Required skills

• GNC
• Robotics engineering
• People management
• Control theory
• Sensor fusion
• State estimation
• English

Nice to have

• GNSS-denied navigation
• PX4
• ArduPilot
• Aerospace
• MIL-STD
• STANAG
• German

About the Company

Stark is a defence technology company that develops AI-driven autonomous defence platforms and software for NATO Allies and partners. The company focuses on innovation in autonomous systems, advanced propulsion, and secure cyber platforms.