At Aurora Flight Sciences, we design, build, and fly advanced aircraft and enabling technologies from concept to reality. We are searching for a talented and self-motivated Aerospace Controls Researcher to help us create the future of flight. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
- Collaborate with top-tier universities to bring the latest exciting developments in research into practical application for Aurora/Boeing projects.
- Contribute to research proposals for government/DOD programs.
- Conduct novel research in autonomy and control for aircraft, leveraging and advancing the state of the art in topics such as adaptive control, machine learning, optimal estimation, and new vehicle architectures that present novel GNC opportunities.
- Present/organize at conferences, workshops, and invited sessions, and publish journal papers.
- Lead the specification, design, development, integration, and test of aircraft GNC/Autonomy systems on ongoing Aurora Programs.
- Supervise technical work.
- Ph.D. or Masters Degree in Aero/Astro, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with guidance and control emphasis or relevant field.
- Expertise in some, and working knowledge of most of the following: Adaptive control, learning-based control, nonlinear control, optimal control, optimal trajectory design, optimal guidance, missile guidance, and control, reinforcement learning, Kalman filtering, stochastic estimation.
- 3+ years of related professional experience in the aerospace industry.
- Must be fluent in MATLAB and Simulink, with working knowledge of C++ desired.
- Must be a US Person (US Citizen or US Permanent Resident).
- Active DOD clearance.
- None.