UAS GNC Engineer

Knightwerx is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior GNC/Autonomy Engineer to work on the development of a small unmanned electric aircraft. We operate in a fast-paced development environment that balances innovation and ingenuity with practicality and reliability. You’ll be working and supported by a team of strong engineers and subject matter experts to develop an aircraft from the ground up and be involved in every step of the process.

Work Experience

Bachelor's or higher degree in relevant engineering discipline

Min. 5 years GNC experience developing software for embedded systems

Top to bottom, start to finish development of embedded system

Cross-discipline, hands-on experience with electrical, embedded, and software fields

Attributes

Innovative, hands-on, and practical

Multi-disciplined, problem solver, driven by engineering analysis

Goal driven, learns from mistakes, and closes the loop on the design process

Understands trades of scope for effort

Communicates well through discussion and documentation

Works well with others to develop plans and solve problems

Primary Duties

Focus on the adaptation and development of onboard flight control system for a small UAS

Works with cross-discipline engineers (AE, ME, EE, SW) to understand the system-level desired functionality and translates to software requirements

Works with aircraft designer to size and spatially configure control actuators; define and experimentally confirm control authority requirements

Architects, implements and tunes vehicle and component control loops, and state estimation algorithms

Work with SW team to build and implement 6-DOF software in the loop simulator

Work with AE team to build 6-DOF vehicle model for simulation

Aide in evaluating and defining tasking/effort to fit the schedule and scope of the project in conjunction with project management

Tasks

State estimation algorithm implementation and tuning

Architect/modify vehicle control loops

Verify/tune vehicle and component control loops

Develop vehicle and component-level models

Research, down-select, and source vehicle sensors and computational components

Help roadmap GPS-denied / VIO implementation into vehicle

Skills

Understanding of common state estimation algorithms and methods for assessing/tuning

Understanding of common control loops and methods for assessing/tuning

Embedded programming, with emphasis on C/C++ in a robotics and/or UAV setting. Experience with Python, C# (desired)

Basic understanding of low-level avionics hardware

Capable of hardware debugging and/or working with hardware engineers to troubleshoot avionics issues Includes following wiring diagrams and oscilloscope/analyzer use

Physics-based actuator/vehicle modeling

Experience with Ardupilot and/or PX4 code bases and compatible hardware (desired)

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