Autonomy Engineer, Controls

About this role

BRINC seeks a Controls Engineer to design and implement flight control algorithms for UAVs used in public safety operations. You'll develop real-time control systems for attitude, trajectory, and autonomous guidance while collaborating with autonomy, software, and hardware teams to deliver production-ready flight control stacks.

What you'll do

• Develop flight control algorithms for attitude, rate, position, and trajectory control on multirotor and hybrid UAVs
• Build guidance pipelines for waypoint tracking, precision trajectory execution, and autonomous behaviors
• Perform system identification, dynamic modeling, and parameter estimation to improve controller accuracy
• Design fault-tolerant control strategies to handle disturbances, sensor issues, and actuator faults
• Validate performance through simulation, hardware-in-loop testing, and real-world flight testing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate controls with navigation and avionics systems

What they're looking for

• Flight control algorithm design (PID, LQR, MPC)
• Multirotor dynamics and nonlinear systems
• Embedded real-time control loop implementation
• System identification and aerodynamic modeling
• UAV tuning and field validation
• Fault-tolerant and redundancy management
• ROS, PX4, or MAVSDK experience
• Hardware-in-loop simulation