Controls Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
Core
Develop, test, and maintain critical flight software systems for autonomous drone delivery, including flight algorithms, simulation tools, and onboard integrity tests.
Role type
Controls Engineer Intern
Builds
Autonomous flight control software and simulation environments for drone delivery platforms
Domain
Aerospace engineering / Autonomous systems / Logistics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Applied mathematics, controls solutions development, embedded software (C/C++/Rust), technical computing (MATLAB/Python/Julia), simulation design, flight data analysis, linear control analysis, dynamic modeling
Preferred skills
Experience with precision inertial navigation, optimal control with uncertainty, multi-developer environments, Github
Technologies
C, C++, Rust, MATLAB, Python, Julia, Github
Responsibilities
Contribute to design, implementation, testing, and release of flight algorithms; Create tools and tests to demonstrate design performance and protect against regressions; Develop and improve simulation and controls analysis tools; Analyze flight data to assess changes and identify improvement areas; Design onboard integrity tests; Present key results to the engineering team
Seniority
Intern
