Remote UAS Flight Controls Engineer – Stock Options

DMR TECHNOLOGIES INC; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

DMR Technologies is seeking a UAS Flight Controls Engineer to support the development, integration, testing, and continued improvement of our unmanned aircraft systems. Direct flight-control experience is required, and candidates may come from firmware/software or electrical hardware backgrounds, but must understand how the flight controller interacts with the aircraft as a whole.

This is a hands-on role working directly with flight controllers, aircraft hardware, embedded systems, sensors,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, electrical, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience with UAS or autonomous aircraft flight-control systems.
• Experience configuring, integrating, tuning, developing, or troubleshooting flight controllers.
• Understanding of aircraft stability, control, navigation, sensors, and flight-control architecture.
• Experience analyzing flight logs, telemetry, or other flight-test data.
• Experience integrating flight controllers with sensors and propulsion systems.
• Strong technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Willingness to work directly with aircraft during bench testing, ground testing, and flight testing.

Responsibilities

• Integrate, configure, test, and troubleshoot UAS flight-control systems.
• Support flight-controller setup, parameter configuration, tuning, and validation.
• Diagnose aircraft stability, control, navigation, communication, and flight-performance issues.
• Analyze flight logs, telemetry, sensor data, and aircraft behavior to identify root causes.
• Integrate flight controllers with GPS/GNSS, IMUs, magnetometers, barometers, ESCs, motors, telemetry, communications systems, and other aircraft components.
• Develop and execute bench, ground, and flight-testing procedures.
• Validate new aircraft configurations, components, firmware releases, and flight-control changes.
• Support development and testing of failsafes, flight modes, autonomous functionality, and other flight-control features.
• Troubleshoot complex aircraft issues across firmware, avionics, electrical hardware, propulsion, sensors, and communications.
• Work with engineering, production, and operations teams to move new aircraft and system improvements from development into production.
• Provide engineering-level support for flight-control issues identified during production or field operations.
• Document aircraft configurations, parameters, test results, technical issues, and corrective actions.

Job description

DMR Technologies is seeking a UAS Flight Controls Engineer to support the development, integration, testing, and continued improvement of our unmanned aircraft systems. Direct flight-control experience is required, and candidates may come from firmware/software or electrical hardware backgrounds, but must understand how the flight controller interacts with the aircraft as a whole.

This is a hands-on role working directly with flight controllers, aircraft hardware, embedded systems, sensors,