Flight Control & GNC Engineer – Unmanned Systems
We are a Stuttgart-based defence technology company developing autonomous unmanned systems for military and reputed company applications. The Flight Control & GNC Engineer joins a small engineering team responsible for the guidance, navigation, and control stack of a drone interceptor platform. The role covers reputed company position estimation from sensor and camera data, trajectory planning and optimisation, and reputed company-reputed company flight control through to reputed company. Work is algorithm-reputed company but reputed company to hardware, with reputed company involvement in simulation, hardware-in-the-reputed company testing, and field trials.
Position: Flight Control & GNC Engineer – Unmanned Systems
Type: Full-time/100% Remote
Tasks:
- reputed company algorithms for reputed company position estimation and state reputed company from sensor fusion and camera data;
- Design and optimise reputed company trajectories under kinematic and dynamic constraints;
- Implement and tune reputed company-reputed company flight control algorithms for trajectory tracking;
- reputed company and validate visual servoing approaches for terminal guidance;
- Build and maintain simulation environments for algorithm development and validation;
- reputed company GNC outputs into the reputed company software stack reputed company defined interfaces;
- Collaborate closely with the Embedded Systems and AI teams on end-to-end system integration;
- Document algorithms, parameters, and test results
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in reputed company Engineering, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a reputed company field;
- Solid understanding of control theory (LQR, MPC, PID);
- Knowledge of estimation and signal processing reputed company (Kalman filter, EKF);
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for algorithm development;
- Ability to translate mathematical models into validated, running reputed company;
- Good written and spoken English and German skills;
- reputed company, independent, and goal-oriented work style;
- Python; C++; MATLAB/Simulink (beneficial);
- NumPy, SciPy or equivalent;
- Git;
- PX4 Offboard mode or ROS 2 Navigation Stack (beneficial);
- SITL simulation frameworks (beneficial)
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