Senior Flight Control Engineer

Required Senior Flight Control Engineer
Why this role exists:
Most flight control teams optimize for handling qualities and margins, then hand the result to acousticians and hope. The causality runs the other way: how the vehicle moves - its transients, its trajectories through a city - is a dominant term in its acoustic signature. This role exists to put a senior control engineer at the point where those decisions are made, owning control laws in which noise is a hard design constraint alongside stability and performance, not a downstream measurement.
What you'll own:
Design, implement, and tune the vehicle's core control laws in MATLAB/Simulink, with acoustic-source models embedded directly in the design loop.
Develop control strategies that treat radiated noise as a hard constraint alongside stability margins and handling qualities, through every phase of flight.
Build and maintain the nonlinear 6-DOF simulation environment used for control design, Monte Carlo robustness analysis, and pre-flight rehearsal of every test point.
Define attitude, rate, and trajectory constraints for noise-critical flight phases - departure, approach, and low-altitude operations over populated areas - jointly with the Acoustics team.
Autocode flight-critical control software to the real-time flight computer and verify it through processor-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop campaigns.
Plan and execute flight test campaigns: write test cards, monitor telemetry in real time, and lead post-flight reconciliation of data against model predictions.
Run system identification programs that anchor aerodynamic, actuator, and noise-source models in flight data, feeding corrections back into the next control law release.
Lead control law design reviews with documented stability margins, robustness analyses, and failure-mode behavior, building the evidence base certification authorities will eventually audit.