# UAS Autonomous Navigation and Control Engineer

**Company:** Beyond Vision
**Department:** Robótica
**Location:** Porto - Trofa
**Salário:** 1.400  - 1.700 /mês

We are looking for an 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;

- Analyse flight logs, diagnose control or estimation problems and optimise system performance;

- Validate solutions through simulation, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop and flight testing;

- Develop fail-safe and degraded-mode behaviours for sensor failures, GNSS loss, communication loss and other abnormal conditions;

- Collaborate with embedded software, perception, hardware, systems and operations teams.

##### Profile

- 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 analyse telemetry and flight data and participate in field-testing activities.

##### Valued Experience

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 optimisation;

- Real-time or safety-critical embedded systems.

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.

##### **Benefits and Career Opportunities**

- 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);

- Join a multidisciplinary and innovative team;

- Stable employment contract (permanent contract);

- Opportunities for professional growth and career development in a relaxed, collaborative environment with a strong culture of continuous learning.

##### **We Value Diversity**

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

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