Flight Guidance & Motion Planning Engineer
Harmattan AI4 months ago
Lausanne, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop dynamically feasible onboard motion planning, including obstacle avoidance, replanning, and perception-aware planning.
- Generate feasible trajectories and references within airframe and actuator constraints for the control loop.
- Design guidance laws that steer the aircraft along references and maintain the desired path.
- Own interfaces for navigation and perception inputs, including latency, rate, dropout, and degraded-input behavior.
- Implement mode and failsafe logic across cruise, loiter, approach, and lost-link scenarios.
- Verify systems through simulation, SITL, HITL, and Monte Carlo campaigns, then conduct flight-test diagnosis using logs.
- Mentor junior engineers depending on seniority.
Requirements
- Degree in aerospace, robotics, GNC, or a related STEM field, with a strong academic record; practical experience may be more important than the specific degree.
- Proven experience with onboard motion planning, trajectory generation, trajectory tracking, and guidance laws on flying platforms.
- Hands-on experience closing a control loop on perception outputs while handling latency and dropout.
- Familiarity with learning-based planning or guidance and simulation-based training, with judgment to compare these methods against classical approaches.
- Systems-minded, pragmatic about failure modes and imperfect inputs, and disciplined about simulation and validation.
- Able to communicate clearly and present guidance and test results to engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Experience with vision-based or perception-coupled guidance is a bonus.
- Commitment to Harmattan AI's mission of providing a defensive edge to allied nations through ethical, high-impact technology.
Benefits
- Work location options include Lausanne, Paris, or Zurich.
Categories
EmbeddedRobotics
About Harmattan AI
Harmattan AI builds autonomous defense systems—air and multi-domain robots and the software that coordinates them—for military and government customers. Its products span autonomy stacks for high-speed flight, guidance and control, computer vision, and radar-enabled sensing, delivered as deployable platforms and integrated software. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Paris, the privately held company operates as a defense prime serving allied forces.