Staff Engineer, Core Flight Controls

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design and implement flight controls for our aircraft automation system.
• Decompose system requirements into low level flight controls requirements.
• Help create and use the simulation tools needed for development and testing including.
• Simulink control law modeling, analysis using MATLAB and Python.
• Participate in flight testing for system identification and verification of control law performance on multiple aircraft types.
• Own the flight control system from end-to-end and be responsible for product delivery to programs and customers.
• Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.

Job requirements

• You are an experienced flight controls engineer passionate about autonomous flight who wants to contribute to making airplanes fly themselves.
• You are familiar with fixed wing aircraft and the classical and modern methods used to control them automatically.
• You know how to use industry standard tools for this work, and you are excited to work on novel applications.
• BS in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience developing control systems for fixed wing aircraft, with demonstrated understanding of fixed wing aircraft dynamics, classical and modern control design / analysis.
• Experience decomposing systems requirements into high level requirements for both outer loop and inner loop control design.
• Experience working in Model Based Development and certification of flight control systems, including proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development toolset.
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing software for real-time systems.