Lead Flight Controls Engineer

Lead Flight Controls Engineer
Salt Lake City, UT - (Onsite Position Monday-Friday)
Contract to Hire
Target Pay $65 - $80/hour / Salary Target: $120k - $150k

Job Description:
Looking for an experienced and innovative flight controls engineer who can lead and drive development efforts for advanced guidance, navigation, and systems control. This role involves designing and optimizing dynamic system behaviors, mentoring a high-performing engineering team, and collaborating across multiple disciplines to deliver cutting-edge performance solutions. Will design, prototype, implement and test new control behaviors for customer requirements. Enhance sensor information and control algorithms. Do research and find optimal sensor locations on aircraft. Develop analysis tools to process data from flight telemetry.

Required Skills:

• 6+years experience in aerospace engineering or mechanical engineering
• Experience in Robotics and/or Flight Control Systems
• Data Analysis with Matlab or heavy building Python data models
• C and C++ programming experience
• Configuration Management tools such as GIT, Gitlab, and Jenkins
• Experience with flight dynamics, state estimation (position, acceleration, velocity, altitude, etc...), and control techniques
• Understanding of flight sensors, accelerometers, magnetometers, GPS receivers
• PX4 flight stack
• Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering

Bonus / Soft Skills:

• Very comfortable working with both technical and non-technical teams
• Patience and willingness to explain engineering principles with other staff and customers
• Willingness to occasionally travel to the field testing areas for flight controls testing of aircraft

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