Flight Controls Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Louisiana.

📋 Description

• Integrate, configure, test, and troubleshoot UAS flight-control systems.

• Assist with the setup of flight controllers, including parameter configuration, tuning, and validation.

• Identify and diagnose issues related to aircraft stability, control, navigation, communication, and flight performance.

• Analyze flight logs, telemetry, sensor data, and aircraft behavior to determine root causes.

• Integrate flight controllers with GPS/GNSS, IMUs, magnetometers, barometers, ESCs, motors, telemetry, communications systems, and other aircraft components.

• Develop and implement procedures for bench, ground, and flight testing.

• Validate new configurations, components, firmware releases, and changes to flight control.

• Support the development and testing of failsafes, flight modes, autonomous functionalities, and other flight control features.

• Troubleshoot intricate aircraft issues across firmware, avionics, electrical hardware, propulsion, sensors, and communications.

• Collaborate with engineering, production, and operations teams to transition new aircraft and system enhancements from development to production.

• Provide engineering-level assistance for flight control issues encountered during production or field operations.

• Document aircraft configurations, parameters, test results, technical issues, and corrective measures.

• Analyze flight data on a computer, troubleshoot aircraft on the bench, and engage in flight testing in the field.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Practical experience with UAS or autonomous aircraft flight control systems.

• Experience in configuring, integrating, tuning, developing, or troubleshooting flight controllers.

• Understanding of aircraft stability, control, navigation, sensors, and flight control architecture.

• Experience in analyzing flight logs, telemetry, or other flight test data.

• Proficiency in integrating flight controllers with aircraft sensors, propulsion systems, communications, and other onboard systems.

• Strong skills in technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

• Willingness and capability to work directly with aircraft during bench, ground, and flight testing.

• Experience in one or more hardware/avionics domains, such as flight control electronics, avionics integration, electrical systems, sensors, GPS/GNSS, communications, telemetry, ESCs, motors, propulsion systems, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, wiring, harnesses, connectors, PCBs, schematics, electronics prototyping, or component-level troubleshooting.

• Experience in one or more firmware/software domains, including embedded firmware development, C/C++, flight control or autopilot software, PX4, ArduPilot, flight control algorithms, control loops, autonomous functionality, firmware debugging, validation, or Git.

• Strong flight control expertise with in-depth knowledge in either hardware/avionics or firmware/software.

• Preferred experience with multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL, or other unmanned aircraft.

• Preferred experience taking a UAS from prototype through flight testing and into production.

• Preferred experience in flight controller tuning and aircraft performance optimization.

• Preferred experience in autonomous flight, mission planning, or navigation systems.

• Preferred experience in developing or validating flight-critical features and failsafes.

• Preferred experience in supporting UAS manufacturing or field operations.

• FAA Part 107 certification or willingness to obtain certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Possible compensation premium for candidates willing to work in Louisiana.

• Potential stock options for the right individual.