Autonomous Drones Engineer
About the role
Role focused on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) of HyLight's autonomous airship (HyLighter). High-responsibility position requiring modeling, control design, hardware integration, testing, and collaboration across technical and regulatory teams to enable pilotless flights in diverse conditions.
Responsibilities
- Modeling & Control: Understand and model airship dynamics to design and implement control and guidance laws for mission execution.
- Robustness & Safety: Develop flight strategies for difficult conditions and design risk mitigation strategies for degraded modes.
- Hardware Integration: Debug embedded systems and implement flight computers, actuators, and various types of sensors.
- Testing & Documentation: Define and participate in flight tests and simulations, ensuring thorough documentation of implemented models and control laws.
- Future Innovation: Improve the performance of existing airships while actively participating in the design of future flight solutions.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering (a PhD is a plus)
- 2-5 years of professional experience in GNC within the drone, aerospace, or automotive industries
- Heritage of being part of a GNC or Flight Dynamics team that successfully brought a drone or aerospace product to market
Skills
Benefits
- Shareholder in HyLight upon hiring
- 100% reimbursement of public transport pass (Navigo) or €800/year for sustainable commuting
- Bike provided for commuting
- Free lunch
- Bi-annual offsite trips with the whole team
- Excellent work environment: international team, team events, beautiful offices on a former airbase
About HyLight
Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs. We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France. We have developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.
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