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Module Lead, Guidance & Control

Lausanne💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Guidance & Control module for high-speed autonomous aircraft, owning the roadmap, team, and interfaces for motion planning, control laws, and flight verification.

Role type

Module Lead, Guidance & Control (Autonomous Flight Systems)

Builds

Guidance and control software for autonomous aircraft (multirotor and fixed-wing)

Domain

Defense / Autonomous Aerial Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Aerospace/controls/robotics expertise, guidance and control software development, team leadership, flight test verification, system integration, trajectory generation, control law design

Preferred skills

French language proficiency

Technologies

Flight control systems, motion planning algorithms, aerodynamic modeling

Responsibilities

Build and lead the Guidance & Control engineering team; Define and own the module roadmap, scope, and milestones; Design and verify guidance laws, motion planning, and trajectory generation; Design, tune, and verify control laws across the airframe family; Manage interfaces with adjacent modules (aerodynamics, ego state, autopilot); Plan and execute flight verification campaigns to validate module performance.

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