Flight Controls Engineer

🕒 September 1

⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

⚜️ Louisiana – Remote

💵 $60k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Founded 2024

🚀 Aerospace

🌾 Agriculture

🎖️ Defense

Aerospace • Agriculture • Defense

DMR Technologies is a U. S. -based developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems and eVTOL platforms, building end-to-end in Lafayette and deploying products across America. The company produces agricultural spray and seeding drones (notably the Field Ranger X50), inspection and ISR platforms (including thermal and high-resolution imaging systems), high-speed C-UAS interceptors (D. A. R. T. ), carrier-portable ISR (Falcon), larger payload drones (D517), a compact inspection drone (D313), an upcoming marine autonomous inspection system, and a hands-on STEM drone kit for education. DMR targets agriculture, inspection, defense, mobility, and STEM education markets and emphasizes U. S. manufacturing and NDAA-compliant defense platforms; it also offers a revenue-share purchase option for the X50.

📋 Description

• 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 • Analyze flight data at a computer, troubleshoot aircraft on the bench, and participate in flight testing in the field

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant 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 aircraft sensors, propulsion systems, communications, and other onboard systems • Strong technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills • Ability and willingness to work directly with aircraft during bench testing, ground testing, and flight testing • Experience in one or more hardware/avionics areas, including flight-control electronics, avionics integration, electrical systems, sensors, GPS/GNSS, communications, telemetry, ESCs, motors, propulsion systems, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, wiring, harnesses, connectors, PCBs, schematics, electronics prototyping, or component-level troubleshooting • Experience in one or more firmware/software areas, including embedded firmware development, C/C++, flight-control or autopilot software, PX4, ArduPilot, flight-control algorithms, control loops, autonomous functionality, firmware debugging, validation, or Git • Strong flight-control experience with depth in either hardware/avionics or firmware/software • Experience with multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL, or other unmanned aircraft is preferred • Experience taking a UAS from prototype through flight testing and production is preferred • Flight-controller tuning and aircraft performance optimization experience is preferred • Autonomous flight, mission planning, or navigation systems experience is preferred • Experience developing or validating flight-critical features and failsafes is preferred • Experience supporting UAS manufacturing or field operations is preferred • FAA Part 107 certification or willingness to obtain certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Possible compensation premium for people willing to be in Louisiana • Potential stock options for the right person

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