Senior Laser Beam Control Engineer for Drone Targeting

Hardware FYI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 270,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Flexible PTO

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Job summary

Aurelius Systems, a defense tech startup in San Francisco, seeks a Principal Controls Engineer to own the math behind beam control for a laser-on-drone system. You will shape the coarse/fine pointing architecture, fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data, and drive prototypes from simulator to hardware with microradian precision.

You will lead timing budgets, stability analysis, and robustness across multi-rate loops, partnering with perception, optics, and mechanical teams to push real-world

Qualifications

PhD in control theory and estimation required.
10+ years of precision pointing experience in fielded systems.
Hands-on system identification and modeling against real dynamics.
Proven ability to ship real-time control loops on embedded targets.

Responsibilities

Own control architecture for beam director loops and multi-rate design.
Develop and validate state estimators fusing radar/EO/IR/inertial data.
Analyze jitter budgets, latency, and stability margins across the system.
Implement and test Kalman/IMM/ nonlinear observers in hardware-in-the-loop.

Skills

PhD in Control

10+ yrs exp

Robust control

Kalman/IMM est.

C/C++ in embedded

Microradian pointing

Real-time systems

System identification

Education

PhD in Control Systems

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

C++

Job description

You will lead timing budgets, stability analysis, and robustness across multi-rate loops, partnering with perception, optics, and mechanical teams to push real-world

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