Mission Performance Analyst
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Reliable RoboticsAutonomous aviation
This role can be remote, or located at our headquarters in Mountain View, California, Seattle, WA or San Diego, CA.Full-TimeMiddle
Salary$190K - $300K; $190K – $300K • Offers Equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years in aircraft performance analysis, flight sciences, flight dynamics, or aerospace systems engineering
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMatlab
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Science or Engineering, or a Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of experience.
- Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in aircraft performance analysis, flight sciences, flight dynamics, or aerospace systems engineering.
- Proficiency processing and analyzing large, noisy flight datasets or raw telemetry.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, or SQL for data analysis.
- Preferred: first-principles physical and aerodynamic analysis experience, including establishing design safety margins in high-uncertainty environments.
- Preferred: experience operating Part 23 or Part 25 aircraft with an FAA-certificated ASEL or AMEL private, commercial, or Airline Transport Pilot certificate, or experience remotely piloting large military uncrewed aircraft.
- Preferred: familiarity with ARP4754B, ARP4761, 14 CFR Parts 23 and 25, and systems safety engineering activities.
- Preferred: experience supporting auto-flight, autopilot, GNC, or envelope protection functions, including automated software/hardware interfaces and physical system constraints.
- Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time.
Responsibilities
- Establish safe, quantified operational thresholds using existing simulations and build basic first-principles models where needed.
- Partner with Autopilot and GNC teams to analyze flight control limits and performance during mode transitions and edge-case scenarios.
- Determine environmental thresholds, including crosswinds, icing, and link latencies, that affect behavioral state transitions.
- Define representative mission scenarios that demonstrate physical system resilience and safe automated responses under compounding failure conditions.
- Provide quantitative physical foundations for safety engineering hazard assessments.
- Analyze real-world flight databases and telemetry logs using Python, MATLAB, or SQL to establish flight performance baselines.
- Quantify procedural thresholds for Flight Manual Supplements, accounting for atmosphere, terrain, and payload variability.
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