Flight Controls Engineer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, or related field, with a focus on controls.
• 3+ years designing and testing control systems for UAVs, aircraft, or robots, or a graduate degree with significant hands-on flight-test work.
• Strong MATLAB/Simulink skills, including code generation for embedded targets.
• Solid grounding in classical control: PI/P design, feedforward, saturation and anti-windup, rate and jerk limiting, and frequency-domain analysis.
• Hands-on flight or hardware testing experience, including analyzing logs to diagnose problems.
• Proficient in Python for analysis and tooling; experience with Git.
• Clear technical writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, model, and tune flight controllers (attitude, position, altitude, yaw, trim) in MATLAB/Simulink and deploy them to PX4-based flight hardware.
• Build and maintain vehicle dynamics models, including the cyclorotor, and extend simulation capability (e.g., Gazebo, SITL).
• Write test plans and conduct test station and flight tests with the drone operations crew.
• Analyze flight logs (PX4 Log) for tracking errors, motor saturation, and vibration, and build tools that expedite that analysis.
• Make the controller robust to estimator events such as EKF resets, IMU switches, and GPS dropouts.
• Characterize propulsion (thrust vs. RPM, motor and prop selection) and feed the results back into the control code.
• Develop control for aerial manipulation: precise lateral positioning, wind rejection, and contact with the connector ring sensor installation and removal.

Benefits

• 12 hours of paid time off
• Health Insurance
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid holidays
• Flexible work schedule