Flight Controls Law Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

Department: Engineering, Production & Testing

Experience: 4+

• • Design, develop, and validate flight control laws for a multi-mode eVTOL aircraft covering hover, transition, and fixed-wing flight regimes.
  • Develop linear and nonlinear aircraft dynamic models for control law synthesis, validation, and performance analysis.
  • Perform control law synthesis using classical and modern control techniques (PID, LQR, gain scheduling, robust control, etc.).
  • Design and implement control allocation strategies for over-actuated propulsion and control surface configurations.
  • Develop and tune state estimators (e.g., Kalman Filters, complementary filters) for attitude, velocity, and position estimation.
  • Conduct stability, robustness, and handling qualities analysis across the full operating envelope.
  • Develop high-fidelity simulation environments (MIL/SIL/HIL) for validation and regression testing.
  • Support ground testing, hardware-in-loop testing, and flight test campaigns including real-time tuning and troubleshooting.
  • Define control system requirements, verification plans, and validation strategies aligned with certification objectives.
  • Collaborate closely with avionics and embedded software teams to support control law implementation and code generation workflows.
  • Contribute to safety assessments including FHA, FMEA, and system-level functional hazard analysis for flight controls.
  • Participate in documentation and compliance activities supporting certification with regulatory authorities.

• • Master’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Controls Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • 4–5 years of relevant experience in flight control system design and validation for manned or unmanned aircraft.
  • Strong proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink for modelling, simulation, and control law development.
  • Solid understanding of flight mechanics, rigid-body dynamics, stability and control theory.
  • Experience in state estimation, guidance laws, and sensor fusion algorithms.
  • Hands-on experience in control law tuning, simulation validation, and flight test support.
  • Familiarity with model-based development and auto-code generation workflows.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.

• • Experience with fly-by-wire systems and safety-critical software development practices.
  • Exposure to certification standards such as DO-178C, DO-331 (Model-Based Development), or ARP4754A.
  • Experience working on VTOL, tiltrotor, hybrid-electric, or distributed propulsion aircraft.
  • Knowledge of aeroelastic modelling and control-structure interaction considerations.
  • Familiarity with HIL/SIL test setups and real-time simulation platforms.
  • Experience working with engineering tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
  • Understanding of DGCA, FAA, or EASA certification processes related to flight control systems.

• • Contribute directly to the development of a next-generation, certifiable eVTOL aircraft.
  • Work in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
  • Take ownership of technically challenging problems spanning dynamics, control, and flight testing.
  • Be part of an organization that values technical rigor, innovation, and operational excellence.