Staff Engineer, Flight Controls

Job description

About Merlin: Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges. About you: You are an experienced flight controls engineer who wants to contribute to making airplanes that fly themselves. You are familiar with fixed wing aircraft and the classical and modern methods used to control them automatically. You know how to use industry standard tools for this work, and you are excited to work on applying them to a new and novel application. Responsibilities: Qualifications: - Design and implement flight controls for our aircraft autonomy system. - Write requirements for high level automation functions and low level flight control. - 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 to verify control law performance on multiple aircraft types. - Write, test, and document Simulink control law models according to Merlin...