UAS Autonomous Navigation and Control Engineer

About the Position

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We are looking for an UAS Autonomous Navigation and Control Engineer to develop and improve guidance, navigation, and flight-control capabilities for unmanned aerial systems. This is an engineering role focused on autonomous flight algorithms, control systems, and autopilot integration. It is not a manual drone-piloting position.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune flight-control algorithms, including attitude, rate, altitude, position, velocity, and trajectory controllers;
• Develop guidance and autonomous navigation functions such as waypoint navigation, path following, trajectory tracking, return-to-home, and autonomous take-off and landing;
• Work with PID and cascaded control architectures, feedforward control, gain scheduling, and other modern control techniques;
• Develop or integrate state-estimation and sensor-fusion algorithms using IMU, GNSS, magnetometer, barometer, optical-flow, camera, LiDAR, or similar sensors;
• Integrate algorithms with flight controller platforms such as ArduPilot, PX4, or custom flight-control systems;
• Analyze flight logs, diagnose control or estimation problems, and optimize system performance;
• Validate solutions through simulation, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop, and flight testing;
• Develop fail-safe and degraded-mode behaviors for sensor failures, GNSS loss, communication loss, and other abnormal conditions;
• Collaborate with embedded software, perception, hardware, systems, and operations teams.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Control Systems, or a related field;
• Strong knowledge of control theory, aircraft or rigid-body dynamics, and autonomous navigation;
• Practical experience developing or tuning PID controllers or other control algorithms;
• Experience with C++, Python, or C;
• Knowledge of state estimation, sensor fusion, and Kalman filtering;
• Experience with UAV autopilots, MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, or embedded computing platforms;
• Familiarity with simulation tools such as Gazebo, ArduPilot SITL, or PX4 SITL;
• Ability to analyze telemetry and flight data and participate in field-testing activities.

Nice to Have

• Experience in one or more of the following areas will be considered an advantage:
  • Fixed-wing, multirotor, or VTOL control;
  • Model Predictive Control, LQR, or nonlinear control;
  • Trajectory planning and optimization;
  • Real-time or safety-critical embedded systems.

We Offer

• Join a multidisciplinary and innovative team;
• Gross monthly salary ranging from 1.400€ to 1.700€, depending on experience;
• Meal allowance of €10.20 per working day (paid via meal card);
• Health insurance (Fidelidade);
• Stable employment contract (permanent contract);
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development in a relaxed, collaborative environment with a strong culture of continuous learning.

About the Company

We are looking for someone with a practical, analytical, and safety-conscious engineering mindset, capable of taking autonomous flight functions from simulation to real-world flight validation.

We promote equal opportunities and diversity and encourage all qualified candidates to submit their applications.

Location: Trofa, Porto, Portugal

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Salary: 1.400€ - 1.700€ /month