Staff Engineer, Core Flight Controls (Aerospace)

Location: Boston or Remote within the United States

Salary: $200,000–$265,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace and defense company developing autonomous flight systems designed to provide full-stack aircraft autonomy from takeoff to touchdown.

What you will do

• Design and implement flight controls for aircraft automation systems.
• Decompose system requirements into low-level flight control requirements for outer-loop and inner-loop control design.
• Create and use simulation tools, including Simulink control-law models and MATLAB and Python analysis.
• Participate in flight testing for system identification and verification of control-law performance across multiple aircraft types.
• Own flight-control systems end to end and deliver products to programs and customers.
• Collaborate on novel, certifiable systems for aviation and autonomy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience developing control systems for fixed-wing aircraft, including classical and modern control design and analysis.
• Experience decomposing system requirements into high-level requirements for outer-loop and inner-loop control.
• Experience with model-based development and certification of flight-control systems, including MATLAB/Simulink or a comparable toolset.
• Experience designing, implementing, and testing software for real-time systems.
• Experience with linear model development, linear analysis, and frequency-domain gain-tuning techniques.

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in Aerospace Engineering or Controls.
• Experience developing never-before-flown control systems or extracting linear state-space models from flight-test data.
• Experience working directly with customers and representing a company.
• Pilot license.
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Unlimited vacation.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Professional development support and work/life integration.
• Visa sponsorship and visa transfers are not available; U.S. work authorization is required without sponsorship now or in the future.

Hiring process

• Employment offers are contingent on passing background and reference checks.
• U.S. employment eligibility verification is required upon hire.