Job Details
Position Overview:
Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has a 30-year history of applying autonomy and robotics to the development of advanced aircraft. The Aerospace Controls Researcher will participate in and lead new research programs at the intersection of autonomous systems and control design, collaborating with experts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, dynamics, and control throughout Boeing and academia.
Specific Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with top-tier universities to bring the latest exciting developments in research into practical application for Aurora/Boeing projects.
* Contribute to research proposals for government/DOD programs.
* Conduct novel research in autonomy and control for aircraft, leveraging and advancing the state of the art in topics such as adaptive control, machine learning, optimal estimation, and new vehicle architectures that present novel GNC opportunities.
* Present/organize at conferences, workshops, and invited sessions, and publish journal papers.
* Lead the specification, design, development, integration, and test of aircraft GNC/Autonomy systems on ongoing Aurora Programs.
* Supervise technical work
Minimum Requirements:
* Ph.D. or Masters Degree in Aero/Astro, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with guidance and control emphasis or relevant field
* Expertise in some, and working knowledge of most of the following: Adaptive control, learning-based control, nonlinear control, optimal control, optimal trajectory design, optimal guidance, missile guidance, and control, reinforcement learning, Kalman filtering, stochastic estimation.
* 3+ years of related professional experience in the aerospace industry.
* Must be fluent in MATLAB and Simulink, with working knowledge of C++ desired.
* Must be a US Person (US Citizen or US Permanent Resident)
Desired Requirements:
* Active DOD clearance