UAV Control Engineer

Location: Eindhoven (Strijp-T), Netherlands; office-based

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous flying and driving robots, including the technology for mobile robotic applications.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain localisation, planning, and control functionality running on robot microcontrollers and onboard Linux computers.
• Apply expertise in UAV dynamics to identify potential issues and support control-team decisions.
• Build core product functionality and custom solutions for customer needs.
• Collaborate with control engineers and system architects, document approaches, and validate software against requirements.
• Analyse log files and ROS bags, evaluate performance, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and support junior engineers.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Robotics, Control Systems, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Preferably 3+ years of professional experience with flying robotics or control systems, with strong analytical and intuitive understanding of UAV dynamics.
• Experience with model-based control, model uncertainties, state or disturbance estimation, and optimisation or sampling-based path planning under kinematic and dynamic constraints.
• Experience deploying solutions on real hardware and validating their performance in practice.
• Experience with ROS2, C++, MATLAB/Simulink, Linux, and Git.
• Clear spoken and written English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker, unit and integration testing, CI/CD workflows, Jira, Confluence, or agile software development.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct employment in a fast-paced, high-tech robotics environment.
• Salary based on experience level.
• Non-contributory pension scheme and travel cost reimbursement.
• Participation plan linked to company growth.
• 30 paid vacation days plus national holidays, along with team events, office activities, coffee, and fresh fruit.