UAV GNC / Flight Controls Engineer
Descrizione dell'offerta
Dronus, a leading company in autonomous drone technology, is seeking a practical and detail-oriented Guidance, Navigation, & Control (GNC) Engineer to join our team in Trieste.
The role focuses on developing highly accurate and robust control algorithms for use in a number of different applications with demanding environmental conditions.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in UAV GNC developing, tuning, and validating flight control algorithms.
Key Responsibilities
- Create innovative, reliable, and efficient GNC solutions to enable new and challenging aircraft capabilities for different platform layouts (multirotor, variable geometry)
- Collaborate with other engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical) in planning, design and development of systems to ensure software and hardware performance and compatibility
- Analyse sensors' data and determine the best approach to achieve a clean and robust navigation solution, including for GNSS-denied airspace, leveraging the available range of installed sensors, including IMU, pressure, VIO
- Ideate and perform flight test campaigns to validate the control designs in a variety of flight conditions representative of real-world usage
- Assess third party and open source software which potentially augments existing flight control capabilities
- Participate hands-on in the full software life cycle, from concept through implementation, integration to flight test.
Experience Requirements
- MS in Aerospace, Robotics, Mechanical, Electrical, or related engineering fields
- A minimum of 3 years working in GNC, robotics, UAV engineering, aerospace, or related fields
- Coding experience (C/C++ preferred) for flight-critical components
- Hands-on experience with at least one UAV class (multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL)
- Proven track record taking a control algorithm from ideation to flight testing
- Experience collaborating with hardware, avionics, and software teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with PX4-based platforms
- Experience with visual-inertial odometry (VIO), SLAM
- Experience with redundancy management, fault-tolerant control
- Experience with Validation&Verification procedures
- Knowledge of sensor drift issues and mitigation methods
- Ability to debug control/system issues in the field
- Familiarity with version control and collaboration tools (Jira, Git, or equivalents)