Guidance, Navigation & Controls Engineer
The Boring CompanyThe Boring Company

Guidance, Navigation & Controls Engineer

Guidance, Navigation & Controls Engineer

  • Develop innovative guidance, navigation, and control systems for Boring Company tunnel boring machines, including all future versions of Prufrock machines.
  • Design and implement high-precision state estimation and sensor fusion algorithms to maintain accurate position and heading.
  • 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 machine 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 GNSS-denied) 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.