Flight Controls Lead - Remote eVTOL Systems

Hireclout; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Hireclout is seeking a Flight Controls Lead for a well-funded eVTOL startup building a two-seat personal flying vehicle. This is a clean-sheet design with eight vertical and two horizontal independently powered ducted fans, plus an AI copilot system.

The company has completed 70+ manned test flights and recently closed a major investment round. You’ll drive flight controls development as part of the founding team, owning the function from scratch rather than maintaining an existing program.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on flight controls engineering experience.
• Experience architecting a flight control system for multirotor or distributed propulsion.
• Fluent with ARP4754A, DO-178C, DO-254 and ASTM on LSA paths.

Responsibilities

• Own the fly-by-wire flight control architecture, its redundancy scheme, and the requirements that define it.
• Build the flight dynamics simulation and design the control laws, proving control authority and handling qualities.
• Design for Simplified Vehicle Operations, so the control law carries the workload and an operator with minimal training can fly it.
• Run the hardware trades and select the suppliers.
• Develop and prove the flight control system on the HIL and iron bird rigs before flight.
• Take the system from the bench through unmanned flight test to manned flight and into the production aircraft.
• Analyze flight data and update the control laws to match the aircraft as flown.

Skills

Flight controls engineering

Control law design

System-level testing

Flight test experience

AR/DO-178C knowledge

Education

Advanced degree in aerospace/electrical engineering

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

HIL testing

Model-based design

Job description

Hireclout is seeking a Flight Controls Lead for a well-funded eVTOL startup building a two-seat personal flying vehicle. This is a clean-sheet design with eight vertical and two horizontal independently powered ducted fans, plus an AI copilot system.

The company has completed 70+ manned test flights and recently closed a major investment round. You’ll drive flight controls development as part of the founding team, owning the function from scratch rather than maintaining an existing program.