Flight Controls and Modeling Engineer - Merlin Labs
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Flight Controls and Modeling Engineer
- Job Location
- Boston
- Job Description
- About Merlin:Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.About You:You are an experienced flight controls simulation engineer who wants to contribute to making airplanes that fly themselves. You are familiar with fixed wing aircraft and the classical and modern methods used to control them automatically. You know how to use industry standard tools for this work, and you are excited to work on applying them to a new and novel application.The Role:
- Help create the simulation tools needed for development and testing (aircraft nonlinear model (6-DOF) update using system identification techniques, etc)
- Past experience has emparted a thorough understanding of aircraft flight dynamics and modeling processes
- Participate in flight test and flight data analysis to validate aircraft dynamics, actuator and LRU modeling
- Integrate and tune automatic flight controls for our aircraft autonomy system on various aircraft - DOD projects
- Write Requirements for high level and low level automated flight control functions and integration for different aircraft types
- Verify control law performance on multiple aircraft.
- Create, test, and verify Simulink control law and system logic/processing models according to Merlin’s development standards, and participate in certification activities.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
Qualifications:- BS in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience developing aircraft simulations using system identification of flight test data to facilitate the rapid design and testing of flight control systems
- Experience developing and certifying control systems for fixed wing aircraft, with demonstrated understanding of fixed wing aircraft dynamics, integration and certification tasks
- Experience decomposing systems requirements into high level requirements and low level requirements/models, and knowledge of how to define integration/performance requirements for automatic flight control systems integration with the other areas of the avionics system
- Experience working in Model Based Development and certification of flight control systems, including proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development toolset
- Experience designing, implementing, and testing software for real-time systems
- Experience developing certified software under RTCA DO-178
Nice To Have:- MS/PhD in Aerospace Engineering and/or Controls
- Experience analyzing military guidance materials for impact on safety of flight and automatic control system design
- Flight Test experience writing test cards and integrating test systems for automated flight controls into various aircraft, to validate aircraft models, validate control system performance and perform failure testing
- Pilot license
- Experience working in an Agile development environment with open-source software tools
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Merlin Labs Company Size
Between 20 - 100 employees
Merlin Labs Founded Year
2017
Merlin Labs Total Amount Raised
$133,500,000
Merlin Labs Funding Rounds
View funding detailsSeries B
$105,000,000 USD
Series A
$25,000,000 USD
Seed
$3,500,000 USD