Merlin Labs - Staff Engineer, Core Flight Controls
Requirements
• BS in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering • 5+ years of experience developing control systems for fixed wing aircraft, with demonstrated understanding of fixed wing aircraft dynamics, classical and modern control design / analysis • Experience decomposing systems requirements into high level requirements for both outer loop and inner loop control design • Experience working in Model Based Development and certification of flight control systems, including proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development toolset • Experience designing, implementing, and testing software for real-time systems • Experience with linear model development, linear analysis and frequency domain gain tuning techniques • MS/PhD in Aerospace Engineering and/or Controls • Experience developing never-before-flown control systems • Experience extracting linear state space models from flight test data • Experience working directly with customers and being a company representative • Proficiency in C/C++ or Python • Merlin Labs offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.
Responsibilities
• Design and implement flight controls for our aircraft automation system. • Decompose system requirements into low level flight controls requirements • Help create and use the simulation tools needed for development and testing including • Simulink control law modeling, analysis using MATLAB and Python. • Participate in flight testing for system identification and verification of control law performance on multiple aircraft types. • Own the flight control system from end-to-end and be responsible for product delivery to programs and customers • Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
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