Autonomous Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer

Harmattan AI; Lausanne; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Harmattan AI in Lausanne is seeking a Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer to own motion planning, trajectory generation, and guidance laws for high-speed autonomous flight. You will work with inputs from estimator and perception pipelines and hand references to the control loop.

You will evaluate classical vs learning-based planning methods, reason about latency and dropout, and contribute to verification across simulation, SITL, and HITL, with mentoring responsibilities for junior

Qualifikationen

• Degree in aerospace, robotics, GNC, or related STEM field; practical track record matters.
• Experience with onboard motion planning and trajectory generation.
• Experience closing a control loop on perception output with latency/dropout.
• Familiarity with learning-based planning vs classical approaches.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and ability to work under pressure.

Aufgaben

• Motion Planning: Plan dynamically feasible paths onboard, including obstacle avoidance, replanning as the situation changes, and perception-aware planning.
• Trajectory Generation: Turn those paths into feasible references under airframe and actuator limits, handed cleanly to the control loop.
• Guidance Laws: Design the laws that steer the aircraft along the reference and hold it there.
• Interfaces & Perception Coupling: Own the input contracts for the ego-state from Navigation and the perception pipeline, and handle their latency, rate, and dropout, including behavior when an input drops.
• Mode & Failsafe Logic: Across cruise, loiter, and approach, including lost-link behavior.
• Flight Test & Diagnosis: Verify across simulation, SITL, and HITL, including Monte Carlo campaigns, then fly and iterate from logs.
• Mentorship: Depending on seniority, support the team by mentoring junior engineers.

Kenntnisse

Motion Planning

Trajectory Generation

Guidance Laws

Interfaces & Perception

Mode & Failsafe

Flight Test & Diagnosis

Mentorship

Vision-based Guidance

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or higher in aerospace, robotics, GNC or related STEM field

Jobbeschreibung

Harmattan AI in Lausanne is seeking a Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer to own motion planning, trajectory generation, and guidance laws for high-speed autonomous flight. You will work with inputs from estimator and perception pipelines and hand references to the control loop.

You will evaluate classical vs learning-based planning methods, reason about latency and dropout, and contribute to verification across simulation, SITL, and HITL, with mentoring responsibilities for junior