UAV Controls Engineer for 3D Vision Solutions - Delft

Job summary

You will collaborate closely with our team of experienced 3D vision engineers, 3D graphics engineers, and robotics engineers to develop the core software that keeps our drones stable, agile, and autonomous from the first simulated takeoff to high-performance, real-world flight.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and validating advanced flight control and guidance algorithms, integrating them tightly with our state-of-the-art perception systems.
• Implementing guidance logic and mission-level behaviors such as autonomous takeoff, landing, waypoint navigation, and other mission-specific objectives.
• Integrating control and navigation modules with perception-driven state estimation and environment understanding.
• Designing and executing simulation pipelines (SITL/HIL) for testing and verification of control algorithms before deployment.
• Analyzing flight data and telemetry to evaluate control performance, stability margins, and fault conditions.
• Collaborating with hardware engineers to configure and calibrate new UAV platforms, ensuring tight coupling between software and physical systems.
• Supporting real-world flight campaigns, including post-flight analysis and iteration.
• Contributing to the development of reusable control libraries, diagnostic tools, and flight visualization utilities.
• Iterating rapidly between simulation and hardware to push the performance envelope of both fixed-wing and multi-rotor flight.

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