Flight Control & Dynamics Engineer
ParisFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Role focused on design and validation of flight control systems for high-speed autonomous flight across a family of airframes, balancing classical and learning-based methods, with hands-on flight testing and system identification.
Responsibilities
- System Identification: Design excitation maneuvers and fit airframe models from flight data, with quantified error bounds.
Qualifications
- A strong academic record with a degree in aerospace, controls, robotics, or a related STEM field. A practical track record matters more than the specific degree.
- Proven, hands-on identification and control on multirotor or fixed-wing platforms, validated in flight, with depth in at least one of MPC, INDI, or geometric control.
- Real-time control implementation on constrained targets, split cleanly between a microcontroller and a companion computer.
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning and simulation-based training, and the judgment to know when a learned policy beats a classical design.
- Empirical and hardware-honest approach, disciplined about experiments and validation, grounded in real flight data.
- Clear communication to present control and test results to engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Thrives under pressure in a fast-paced environment with a no-task-is-too-small mentality.
- Bonus: Multi-airframe or hover-to-cruise transition experience.
- Commitment to Harmattan AI's mission of providing a defensive edge through ethical, high-impact technology.
Skills
Required:System IdentificationControl Law Design & TuningSim-to-RealModel Consumption (Aerodynamics)Flight Test & Diagnosis
Nice to have:Mentorship
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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