Senior Flight Controls Engineer
Skyways
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design, implement, and tune flight control algorithms for autonomous fixed‑wing and VTOL aircraft.
- Own control laws end to end, including requirements definition, simulation, flight code, and validation.
- Develop and maintain control system models in simulation environments to support analysis and testing.
- Analyze flight test data and logs to diagnose issues and improve performance.
- Collaborate closely with avionics, autonomy, mechanical, and flight test teams to integrate and validate control systems.
- Support ground and flight testing, including on‑site test campaigns when needed.
- Continuously improve robustness, fault tolerance, and performance across a growing operational envelope.
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in control theory, dynamics, and state estimation.
- Experience implementing flight or vehicle control systems in production code.
- Comfort working in C++ and Python in embedded or real‑time systems.
- Hands‑on experience with simulation, controller tuning, and flight or field testing.
- Ability to reason from first principles and debug complex, cross‑disciplinary problems.
- Comfort operating in an early‑stage environment with incomplete requirements and fast iteration cycles.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
control theorydynamicsstate estimationC++Pythonembedded systemsreal-time systemssimulationcontroller tuningflight testing
Soft skills
problem solvingcollaborationadaptabilitydebuggingfirst principles reasoning