Hybrid Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer – Autonomous UAVs

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About the role

  • Senior Engineer - Controls for autonomous UAV stack at fast-growing deep-tech startup. You will own GNC capabilities and shape development roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • As a Senior Engineer - Controls, you will have broad ownership over core capabilities of our autonomous UAV stack.
  • This includes guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for interception and collision avoidance maneuvers.
  • Robust state estimation in noisy sensor environments.
  • Interfacing with a variety of flight controller software systems.
  • Shape and drive the short-to-medium-term development roadmap.
  • May take on the role of Tech Lead, providing technical direction and coordinating implementation efforts.

Requirements

  • Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++.
  • Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development.
  • Foundational understanding of fixed-wing and multi-rotor flight dynamics.
  • Experience implementing and tuning controllers in actual flight vehicles.
  • Experience with state estimation and sensor fusion concepts.
  • Deep intuition for transform trees and pose representations used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics.
  • Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering.
  • A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit in making cool tech work.
  • Big Plus: experience with higher-level autonomy concepts such as path-planning and trajectory optimization.
  • Full time availability (40 hours).

Benefits

  • 25 vacation days per year.
  • Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.
  • (Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands.
  • Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology.
  • Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions.

Job title

Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer – Autonomous UAVs

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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