About Us
Skydweller Aero Inc.
is a transatlantic aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft solutions capable of perpetual flight with heavy payload capacity.
The company is developing a new class of unmanned aircraft, providing the persistence of geosynchronous satellites with sensing capabilities and the flexibility of a large airborne platform.
Skydweller Aero Inc.
has World and US headquarters in Oklahoma City and European offices in Spain.
Job Description
- Work in all areas of the system development cycle including requirements, CONOPs, high-level and detailed design, integration, and test
- Design, implement and validate automatic flight features, including new functions, flight control laws and failure handling logic
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including avionics, mission planning and software engineers to define and refine system design and requirements
- Contribute to development of GNC design and validation, including integration and tailoring of company tools and processes
- Provide assessments of vehicle-level stability and control characteristics in support of vehicle layout and control surface and flight control modifications
- Design and implement testing architecture and evaluation tools for validating control laws through simulation
- Design and implement physics-based and empirical models for subsystems and physical processes (aerodynamics, landing gear, actuators, etc)
- Work with related organizations such as software and laboratory engineers to establish and maintain interfaces and common practices
- Support integration and flight test for flight control law evaluation
- Perform data reduction from ground and flight tests for model and design validation and verification including performance, stability and dynamic derivatives from model estimation
Required Qualifications
- S.
in Aerospace Engineering or B.S. Electrical Engineering or B.S. Mechanical Engineering - Demonstrated experience with design and integration of flight control systems
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and Python
- Experience with flight control law design and analysis and flight dynamics
- Flight test experience
- 5+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering or Related Field
- Prior history in GNC engineer during an early development/flight test environment
- Control Systems, Signal Processing or Autonomy academic background.
Control, Guidance, Navigation or Autonomy Vehicle experience (preferably in the aviation field) via academic projects or professional experience - Experience in Vehicle Control (aircraft or other) Systems Engineering in the areas of design, integration and test
- Experience in design and implementation of Safety Critical Systems, e.g. multi-layer state machines
- Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
- Familiarity with Redundancy Management including Failure, Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR)
- Familiarity with Data reduction and Model Identification
- Awareness/Experience in modeling of Aeroservoelastic or Fluid Structure Interactions
- Experience in FAA/EASA/AESA certification programs
- 8+ years of combined professional experience in the various topics above
Preferred Tool / Process Experience
- Polarion
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Python
- C/C++
- SCADE
- DO-178
- ARP 4754
- MIL-STD-1797A
- Atlassian Tools (JIRA/Confluence)
Search Keywords
- Guidance, Navigation and Control
- Flight Control
- System Engineer
- Simulation Engineer
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Company Benefits
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance to all FTEs, which can include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off: This includes vacation time, sick leave, and personal days.
- Flexible schedules: we offer flexible schedules; we help employees achieve a better work-life balance.
- Professional development opportunities: we may offer training, educational opportunities, or tuition reimbursement programs to help employees develop their skills and advance their careers.
- Wellness programs: we offer wellness programs that promote healthy living and can include things like gym memberships, nutrition counseling, or stress-management classes.
- Flex Remuneration.
- Meal Vouchers.
- Stock options: all FTEs after one year of seniority may have the opportunity to receive options as part of their compensation package.
- Bonuses: we offer bonuses or other forms of performance-based compensation to reward employees for their hard work and achievements.
- Fruits and soft drinks in the office.
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