Gilching | Anteilig remote | Vollzeit

(Senior) Flight Control System Engineer (m/f/d)

What is your Day to Day Mission:

  • Conceptualize effective and safe flight control solutions to complex multi-domain problems concerning flight stability, performance and safety​.
  • Participate in shaping flight control system architecture and interface design decisions to ensure continuous scalability and flexibility of the flight control software and other autopilot components​.
  • Help coordinate and optimize the team‘s workflow between concept reviews, implementation, code reviews, simulation and flight testing, log data analysis and documentation​.
  • Communicate and coordinate with other stakeholders across team boundaries such as test pilots, product managers, software and hardware developers of all other UAV and ground system components​.
  • Maintain continuous overview over flight operations, prototype operations and testing results to identify possible problems and solutions.

What you bring to the team:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in Flight Control System design, preferably both multirotor and fixed wing control​.
  • Intuitive, internalized understanding of flight physics and flight dynamics.
  • Solid understanding and hands-on experience with control theory and controller implementation​.
  • Strong proficiency in Matlab/Simulink .
  • Experience writing and analyzing C/C++ Code​.
  • Knowledge and hands-on experience with digital signal processing and data analysis​.
  • Ability to work within and across highly specialized teams, efficiently communicate and coordinate.