Requirements

• Develop innovative guidance, navigation, and control systems for Boring Company tunnel boring machines, including all future versions of Prufrock machines.
• Engage in multi-disciplinary machine investigations and design work that define the systems architecture.
• Implement new software or algorithms to enable mission unique capabilities and leading edge launch vehicle performance.
• Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulation models used for GNC systems analysis and validation.
• Analyze TBM trajectories, performance dispersions, and stability.
• Conduct post tunneling data review and correlation with analyses for continued improvement of predictions.
• Support tunneling operations of machines that you enabled.
• Perform testing of GNC software utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, and algorithm unit testing.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline
• 3+ years of professional or hands-on experience in control systems, classical dynamics, sensors and actuators, modeling and simulation
• Experience with the software programming.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Postgraduate degree in physics or an engineering discipline or 7+ years of professional experience in control systems, sensors and actuators, modeling and simulation, and programming
• Demonstrated project or professional experience in underground (or other non-GPS) positioning systems. 
• Capable of solving complex problems with little to no supervision on schedule as an individual or as a member of an integrated team.  
• Passion for advancing the technology of the mining industry and improving the way people get from point A to point B.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.