Senior Engineer / Tech Lead Controls for Aerial Robotics

• Wide ownership over some of the core capabilities of our autonomous UAV stack
• Responsible for guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for interception and collision avoidance maneuvers
• Responsible for robust state estimation in noisy sensor environments
• Responsible for interfacing with the multitude of flight controller softwares
• Responsible for the short-to-medium-term development roadmap

• Good understanding of, and experience with, modern C++
• Real-time software development experience such as game, simulation, robotics or embedded development
• Foundational understanding of fixed-wing and multirotor flight dynamics
• Experience implementing and tuning controllers in actual flight vehicles
• Experience with state estimation and sensor fusion concepts
• Deep intuition for transform trees and pose representations used in game engines, computer graphics, and robotics
• Experience with AI coding agents and prompt engineering
• A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit
• Full time availability (40 hours)

Big Plus: experience with higher-level autonomy concepts such as path-planning and trajectory optimization

• 25 vacation days per year
• Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop
• (Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week when in the Netherlands
• Working in an international, world-class team
• Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions
• The opportunity to take technical risks
• Responsibility over the things you implement
• Traveling abroad to test the solutions you built