Internship - GNC Engineer

Swiss based Dufour Aerospace is developing an eVTOL platform based on tiltwing technology to make future manned and unmanned electric and hybrid electric aircraft a reality. Dufours prototypes have already flown many hundreds of flights both manned and unmanned. The combination of VTOL operation aircraft design and software development expertise puts Dufour Aerospace at the forefront of Advanced Air Mobility.

Our internship position targets Masters students with a minimum commitment of 6 months and a potential interest in subsequently working with us.

Tasks

We are seeking an intern who is passionate about aircraft control systems and software development to join our team and work on our inhouse Guidance Navigation and Control system and supporting software. In this role you will work closely with our flight control and simulation engineers to develop software for test and analysis of our test aircraft.

• Flight test support for testing existing GN&C features on our small scale aircraft
• Develop tests for failures and edge cases of GN&C features in simulation.
• Maintaining and documenting the GN&C code
• Improve flight test data processing pipeline
• Develope automated testing suite for continual development

Requirements

Required

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Background in robotics control computer science or a related field
• Project experience with programming

Desired

• Project experience working with C and Python
• Good eye for clean code
• Familiar with control system and estimation theory
• Familiar with aircraft dynamics both fixed and/or rotary wing

Dufour Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race sex gender identity disability religion/belief sexual orientation or age.