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Senior Autonomy Engineer - Controls

San Mateo, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-02-26 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop and tune low-level controllers and trajectory optimization for autonomous drone flight and gimbal motion.

Role type

Senior IC controls algorithm engineer (autonomous flight)

Builds

Core motion planning software for autonomous drones

Domain

Aerial robotics / Autonomous flight systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Low-level control design, trajectory optimization, dynamic programming, non-linear optimization, C++ proficiency, real hardware control experience

Preferred skills

Modern and classical control design methods, software architecture

Technologies

C++

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