# Sr. Guidance Engineer

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods - and eventually people - move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality. As a Sr. Guidance Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be a part of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control team. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and testing of the guidance system, and your work will enable the integration of un-crewed aircraft into the National Airspace System. Responsibilities Define guidance system capabilities and requirements in collaboration with operations and pilot teams Design guidance system features to integrate with flight control systems and pilot displays Implement flight guidance algorithms in simulation and flight software Reduce and analyze simulation, lab, and flight test data Evaluate guidance system performance and behavior via simulation, hardware-in-loop, and flight test cases Basic Success Criteria MS

- **Id**: 664806
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/reliable-sr-guidance-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States, Seattle, United States, San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-13T17:37:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T10:46:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 183
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4161
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Avionics & Flight Control

## Company

- **Id**: 685145
- **Name**: Reliable Robotics
- **Domain**: reliable.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/reliable>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 192
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 215000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Motion Planning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 183

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T21:52:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 49
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.814
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 182
- **Expected fill days**: 192
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:late, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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