What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated leadership in flight controls, GNC, or an adjacent vehicle-controls discipline, with experience leading technical teams, setting direction, developing engineers, and growing teams through thoughtful hiring.
• A track record of taking control laws from development through flight. You’ve personally worked through the simulate, fly, analyze, and retune loop on a real air vehicle, including prototype first flight or flight-test campaigns, and understand what it takes to turn analysis into something you’re ready to clear for flight.
• Ownership of technical delivery. You’ve been accountable for what your team delivers and clears to flight, translating technical work into test milestones, making difficult tradeoffs, and working through both technical and team challenges along the way.
• Deep expertise in at least one of our core controls areas, with strong systems-level fluency across the others. You can set technical direction, ask the right questions, and credibly review work outside your deepest area of expertise.
• Strong hands-on controls and model-based development capability, including MATLAB/Simulink for control design, modeling, simulation, and analysis. You’re comfortable getting into the models yourself, not only reviewing the work of others.
• Experience with flight controls analysis, optimization, and system identification tools and methods. Familiarity with CONDUIT and CIFER is especially valuable given the team’s existing toolchain.
• Real-world flight test judgment. You’ve supported flight test on console and can assess data, understand vehicle behavior, and make sound technical recommendations—including when a controls change is or isn’t ready to fly.

Bonus Experience

• Additional experience that could strengthen the team includes safety-critical flight controls and certification (DO-178C, ARP4754A, DO-330); model-based or formal verification; autocode and embedded flight software; INS/GNSS fusion and altimetry; height-over-surface estimation; VTOL or multi-regime transition control; handling qualities; hardware-in-the-loop testing; novel vehicle or maritime certification; and scaling a controls function in a startup environment.

Who We're Looking For

• Collaborative Technical Leader: You bring people together around hard technical problems and create an environment where strong engineers can do their best work. You listen, challenge constructively, make decisions when needed, and work across controls, software, systems, test, and other disciplines to move the vehicle forward.
• Hands-On Leader: You stay close enough to the technical work to understand what’s happening, ask the right questions, and step in when your expertise is needed. You know when to dig into a model or flight-test result yourself and when to give your team the space to own the solution.
• Calm Under Pressure: Flight test doesn’t always go according to plan. You bring sound judgment when the data is incomplete, priorities shift, or something unexpected happens - helping the team work through the problem without sacrificing rigor or safety.
• Builder Mindset: You’re excited to build on the strong team and technical foundation already in place. You look ahead to what the controls organization will need next - developing people, strengthening how the team works, and evolving the tools, processes, and capabilities needed as REGENT moves from prototype through flight test and toward production.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation including a robust equity incentive plan.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance - we cover 100% of your premiums.
• 401(k) with company matching, so you can plan for the future.
• Generous flexible time off, paid parental leave, and company-wide holiday breaks.
• Relocation packages available for those moving to join our team.
• Daily, free catered lunches
• Learning & professional development opportunities

If you’re ready to take on an exciting challenge, grow with us, and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, but you see yourself contributing to our mission, we encourage you to apply! We value diverse skillsets and experiences and believe in the potential of passionate individuals to make a big impact.

Equal Opportunity Employer

REGENT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.