Senior Flight Control Systems Engineer
Santa Cruz, CAFull-time$115–198K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed 6 days ago
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The Senior Flight Control Systems Engineer owns flight control algorithm functionality, designs simulations to validate control laws, and directs system-level verification in labs and on aircraft. The role authors aircraft and system requirements, supports validation, and develops simulation and analysis frameworks. It coordinates with multiple engineering teams to identify deficiencies and refine aircraft design, while working with software engineers to ensure tests and artifacts are completed and linked.
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Senior Flight Control Systems Engineer
Job Locations US-CA-Santa Cruz
ID 2026-5471 Category Flight Physics Type Regular Full-Time
Company Overview Imagine an air taxi that takes-off vertically and quietly, carries you and your fellow passengers across the city streets below, bringing you to the people and places you want to spend time with via the uncongested electric sky. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in the urban environment. We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push toward certifying the Joby aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and launching our initial commercial service.
Overview As a Senior Flight Control Systems Engineer, you will own functionality in the flight control algorithm, design and orchestrate simulations to validate control law design, and direct verification activities for system level behavior in labs and on-aircraft. You will author and coordinate aircraft and system level requirements and support validation activities. You will work with the modeling team to create simulations and analysis frameworks for collecting and presenting critical design data. You will focus the Aircraft, Safety, Avionics, Loads, Performance, Rotor Dynamics, and Flight Test teams to identify deficiencies and refine the aircraft design. You will work with software engineers to ensure relevant tests are run and relevant artifacts are produced, stored, and linked.
Responsibilities
- Coordination of aircraft-level and system-level teams to solve design challenges
- Recommendations on design closure based on simulation and analysis of aircraft responses
- Development and implementation of flight control features
- Development of analysis and verification frameworks
- Requirement authorship and management
Required
- B.S. + 5 years of experience, or M.S + 3 years of experience. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Knowledge in classical controls, modern state-space controls, and numerical optimization
- Knowledge in multi-body dynamics, aerodynamics, and electrical powertrain
- Knowledge in digital signal processing and real-time embedded systems
- Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, and Python
Desired
- Passion about flying machines
Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $115,200 - $198,200/yr. The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.
Additional Information Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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How this job compares
Set against the 10,963 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$115–198K/yr
- California median$142–208K/yr1,687 salary ranges
- US median$115–188K/yr8,055 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $157K, is 10% below the California median midpoint ($175K) — in the middle half of Systems Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,986 open Systems Engineer jobs in California and 10,963 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,103 postings).
- Education
- 4,702 of the 10,963 open Systems Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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