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Flight Control & Dynamics Engineer

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

About the role

Flight Control & Dynamics Engineer focusing on control law design, system identification, and sim-to-real for high-speed autonomous flight across a family of airframes, with potential mentorship responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • System Identification: Design excitation maneuvers and fit airframe models from flight data, with quantified error bounds.
  • Control Law Design & Tuning: Inner rate and attitude loops through outer position loops, with allocation, gain scheduling, and manual or automated tuning across the airframe family and flight envelope.
  • Sim-to-Real: Keep the in-house simulator faithful to the identified model, so control developed in simulation transfers to the aircraft.
  • Model Consumption: Turn the stability derivatives and coefficient tables from Aerodynamics into flying control.
  • Flight Test & Diagnosis: Verify across simulation, SITL, and HITL, including Monte Carlo campaigns, then fly and iterate from logs.
  • Mentorship: Depending on seniority, support the team by mentoring junior control and GNC engineers.

Qualifications

  • A degree in aerospace, controls, robotics, or related STEM field (strong academic record; practical track record matters).
  • Proven, hands-on system identification and control on multirotor or fixed-wing platforms, validated in flight, with depth in at least one of MPC, INDI, or geometric control.
  • Embedded Realization: Real-time control implementation on constrained targets (microcontroller and companion computer).
  • Learning-Based Control: Familiarity with reinforcement learning and simulation-based training, and the judgment to know when a learned policy beats a classical design.
  • Professional Attributes: Empirical and hardware-honest, disciplined experiments, clear communication, ability to present results to engineers and senior stakeholders, thrive under pressure.
  • Bonus: Multi-airframe or hover-to-cruise transition experience.
  • Commitment: 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission of providing a defensive edge to allied nations through ethical, high-impact technology.

Skills

Required:System IdentificationControl Law DesignSim-to-RealModel Consumption from AerodynamicsFlight Testing
Nice to have:Mentorship
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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