Principal Flight Control Systems Engineer

AIRO Group Holdings, Inc. • Montreal, QC

4d • CA$130,000 - CA$155,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Level 4 Flight Control Systems Engineer, you are responsible for designing and simulating specific flight-critical control allocation and transition logic routines for the hybrid-electric slowed-rotor architecture. In this advanced engineering role, you will own distinct portions of the fly-by-wire control loop architecture, bridging the gap between abstract aerodynamic design and deterministic embedded implementation on the vehicle's dual Flight Control Computers. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary propulsion, avionics, and safety teams to develop, mature, and validate the flight control software from concept modeling through integrated hardware-in-the-loop validation and prototype flight clearing.

Requirements

• Proven background in aircraft fly-by-wire flight control laws, multi-rotor thrust vectoring, or helicopter/tiltrotor flight mechanics.
• Demonstrated history of utilizing MATLAB and Simulink for the modeling, simulation, and analysis of multi-variable dynamic systems.
• Direct experience generated using embedded autocoding pipelines to deploy real-time software onto target flight hardware.
• Practical exposure to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing facilities, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and safety-critical system development workflows.
• Strong collaborative and communications baseline necessary to coordinate complex multi-system interfaces across propulsion, electrical, and systems safety structures.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to read, write, and understand French

Responsibilities

• Design and refine control laws governing the aerodynamic transition from rotor-borne vertical lift to wing-borne forward cruise flight.
• Develop multi-variable control allocation algorithms that blend main rotor collective and cyclic pitch commands with differential wing-mounted propulsor thrust and fixed aerodynamic surfaces like flaperons, elevators, and rudders.
• Integrate parallel hybrid energy-constraint logic into core Flight Control Computer algorithms to dynamically balance transient battery discharge power margins against continuous internal combustion engine generator output.
• Implement robust flight envelope protection logic to enforce structural and aerodynamic safety boundaries, including pitch, bank, airspeed, rotor RPM, and load factor limits.
• Configure deterministic software state machines for cross-channel monitoring, sensor voting, and automatic failover handling across dual Flight Control Computers.
• Execute and document extensive Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulations to validate control loop robustness, Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) logic, and emergency landing autonomy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior