Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings, is looking to solve the problem of creating world-class system solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) by hiring a Lead Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer.
Requirements
- Comfortable performing data analysis in either Matlab or Python
- Comfortable working with a variety of programming languages, including C/C++
- Familiarity with the PX4 flight stack
- Familiarity with configuration management and build tools such as Git, Gitlab, and Jenkins
- Familiarity with quadcopter flight dynamics, state estimation, and control techniques
- Conceptual understanding of common flight sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometers, and GPS receivers
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, implement, and test new flight behaviors to meet customer needs
- Lead, build and mentor a world class guidance, navigation and control engineering team
- Tune and enhance payload state estimation, sensors, and control
- Perform trade studies to determine optimal sensor selection and placement
- Refine and improve flight performance of deployed systems
- Review flight telemetry to verify/validate new features or assess flight anomalies on deployed systems
- Perform research and development of advanced states estimation and control techniques
Other
- Ability to collaborate as part of a multi-disciplinary team to include engineering and non-engineering teammates
- Ability to follow through on tasks as an individual contributor
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering with a focus in robotics and/or control systems
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods while working at a computer or in a lab environment
