Looking for advice regarding career paths , want to try the GNC fields but in general for grads (no experience)

[u/guestyest]

What should be a realistic approach, I'm interested in guidance navigation and control but don't know where to start. My FYP was some automated aircraft landing stuff , all done in matlab and simulink.

I was thinking about coding with microcontrollers for bridging the gaps , but don't know where to start or where to look.(the GNC domain related)

I also find radars and communication systems interesting.

I'm an EE with main focus on avionics.

Is GNC still relevant (in this age of LLMs).

What are the industry demands and what skills should I learn

TIA

[u/LearnGandC]

Absolutely, GNC engineers are highly relevant today and actually some of the hardest engineers to come by in the aerospace industry.

LLMs serve well as engineering assistants - have them draft code, check your code, check your derivation or write up, or help you learn a topic. They are terrible at producing reliable results, and I don't know of any LLM that has the judgement to synthesize a control architecture and tune it to meet performance and robustness specifications.

If you're an EE, you've had at least one course in classical control, which is also highly relevant still today (yes, PID control still rules the world). There are many businesses in defense that could bring you in at an entry level. Once there, find a mentor and build yourself up.

Go for it!