Autonomous Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer

Harmattan AI; Vaud; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Harmattan AI in Switzerland 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 from Lausanne, Paris, or Zurich, integrating inputs from the estimator and perception pipeline and delivering reference signals to the control loop.

You will balance classical and learning-based methods, evaluate performance across simulations and flight tests, and mentor junior engineers as needed.

Qualifikationen

• Strong academic record with a degree in aerospace, robotics, GNC, or related STEM field.
• Experience with onboard motion planning, trajectory generation, and tracking.
• Experience closing a control loop on a perception output, handling latency and dropout.
• Familiarity with learning-based planning or guidance and simulation-based training.
• Clear communication and ability to present results to engineers and stakeholders.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Bonus: vision-based or perception-coupled guidance.
• 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission.

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

Perception-coupled control

Learning-based methods

Simulation & validation

Communication skills

Mentorship

Ausbildung

Aerospace/Robotics/GNC degree

Jobbeschreibung

Harmattan AI in Switzerland 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 from Lausanne, Paris, or Zurich, integrating inputs from the estimator and perception pipeline and delivering reference signals to the control loop.

You will balance classical and learning-based methods, evaluate performance across simulations and flight tests, and mentor junior engineers as needed.