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Flight Control Engineer
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Onsite / Hybrid | Start-up | Novel unmanned aircraft programme
Note: No visa sponsorship is available for this role.
A start-up team is building a new unmanned aircraft platform and needs a senior, hands-on Flight Controls Engineer to take control laws from simulation through to ground and flight test.
What you’ll be doing
- Develop and tune flight-control algorithms and control approaches for UAS platforms
- Verify and validate control performance from simulation to ground testing and flight testing
- Support flight dynamics modelling, control-law development, simulation and tuning
- Configure, integrate, and tune autopilot systems where appropriate
- Support system identification, flight-test planning, and flight-data analysis
- Contribute to SIL/HIL test approaches and troubleshooting (stability, sensor fusion, actuators)
- Document control approaches, test results, configuration changes, and validation evidence
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What we’re looking for
- Strong experience in flight control / control systems / autonomy / robotics / aerospace controls
- Proven experience developing and testing control algorithms for real-world systems
- Practical experience with UAS/UAVs, aircraft, robotics, or autonomous platforms
- Strong understanding of flight dynamics, control theory, stability and tuning
- Experience with modelling, simulation, testing and verification/validation
- Ability to analyse flight-test data and diagnose control issues
- Comfortable working with autopilots, IMUs, GNSS/INS, actuators and onboard systems
- Strong documentation and validation discipline
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Nice to have
- Control-law development for unconventional aircraft / novel UAS platforms
- PX4, ArduPilot, Auterion (or similar)
- MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++
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