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Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer

Harmattan AI· R&D
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LausanneFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on motion planning, trajectory generation, and guidance laws for high-speed autonomous flight. Owns motion planning, trajectory generation, and guidance in Lausanne, Paris, or Zurich; evaluates classical vs learning-based methods and validates through simulation and flight testing.

Responsibilities

  • Motion Planning: Plan dynamically feasible paths onboard, including obstacle avoidance, replanning as the situation changes, and perception-aware planning.
  • Trajectory Generation: Turn paths into feasible references under airframe and actuator limits, handed to the control loop.
  • Guidance Laws: Design the laws that steer the aircraft along the reference.
  • Interfaces & Perception Coupling: Own input contracts for ego-state from Navigation and perception pipeline, manage latency, rate, dropout, and behavior when inputs drop.
  • Mode & Failsafe Logic: Across cruise, loiter, and approach, including lost-link behavior.
  • Flight Test & Diagnosis: Verify across simulation, SITL, and HITL, including Monte Carlo campaigns; fly and iterate from logs.
  • Mentorship: Depending on seniority, mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

  • Aerospace, robotics, GNC, or related STEM field degree with strong academic record; practical track record matters.
  • Proven experience with onboard motion planning, trajectory generation, tracking, and guidance laws on flying platforms.
  • Hands-on experience closing a control loop on a perception output, handling latency and dropout.
  • Familiarity with learning-based planning or guidance and simulation-based training; ability to weigh against classical approaches.
  • Systems-minded, pragmatic about failure modes; disciplined about simulation and validation.
  • Clear communication; able to present guidance and test results to engineers and senior stakeholders.
  • Thrives under pressure in a fast-paced environment with a no-task-is-too-small mindset.

Skills

Required:Motion PlanningTrajectory GenerationGuidance LawsPerception-Coupled Control
Nice to have:Learning-Based Methods
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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