Drone Flight Controls & Autonomy Engineer (Hybrid)

Alto Cirra; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Holidays

Sick days

Premium health contribution

Work equipment provided

Travel reimbursement

Professional development budget

Job summary

Alto Cirra seeks a flight-control software engineer to develop and verify autonomy software for aircraft. The role emphasizes simulation, validation, and failsafe design, in a hybrid work setting at our Salt Lake City headquarters.

You will collaborate with Team Engineering, require 3+ years in controls or autonomy software, strong C++ and Python skills, and experience with simulation tools such as PX4/ArduPilot or ROS. Travel up to 15% may be required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years developing controls, robotics or autonomy software.
• Strong C++ and Python skills with version control, code review and automated testing.
• Understanding of feedback control, state estimation and flight dynamics.
• Experience with simulation and systematic validation before hardware or flight deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune flight-control and autonomy software.
• Build and use simulation to evaluate behavior before flight.
• Run reviewed verification of software changes.
• Design and test failsafe and contingency behavior.
• Analyze flight logs to find and fix control issues.

Skills

C++

Python

Control theory

Flight dynamics

Tools

PX4

ArduPilot

ROS

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Alto Cirra seeks a flight-control software engineer to develop and verify autonomy software for aircraft. The role emphasizes simulation, validation, and failsafe design, in a hybrid work setting at our Salt Lake City headquarters.

You will collaborate with Team Engineering, require 3+ years in controls or autonomy software, strong C++ and Python skills, and experience with simulation tools such as PX4/ArduPilot or ROS. Travel up to 15% may be required.