Lead Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer
Teal Drones, a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings, is looking to fill an immediate position for a full-time Lead Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer. Teal is focused on creating world-class system solutions serving a broad range of applications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Teal is working to deliver state-of-the-art, high-quality, high-performance robotic systems to address the growing demand in the drone industry.
This position is located at the Teal facility in South Salt Lake City
Duties and 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
• Collaborate with interdepartmental functional groups
• 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
• Collaborate with autonomy and software engineers to integrate advanced new features into the flight stack
• Develop analysis tools to process flight telemetry
• Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
• 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 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
• Comfortable performing data analysis in either Matlab or Python
• Comfortable working with a variety of programming languages, including C/C++
Additional Desired Attributes and Skills:
• 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
• Possess a Part 107 pilots license
• Previous experience flying quadcopters
• Conceptual understanding of common flight sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometers, and GPS receivers
Physical Requirements:
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods while working at a computer or in a lab environment
• Manual dexterity for operating hardware, electronic components, or testing tools
• Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds occasionally for equipment or test setups
• Capacity to move between lab, office, and test areas as required
• Visual acuity to read screens, technical documents, and assess flight telemetry or test results
• Occasional travel or field testing may be required.
Background Check
This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check. Qualified candidates with a criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal and state law.
EEO and ITAR/EAR Work Authorization Disclosure
Red Cat Holdings provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software, technology or technical data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Successful candidates for positions subject to ITAR/EAR restrictions must provide proof of U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residence and must not require sponsorship for export-restricted work authorization.
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