Job Qualifications:

Aurora Flight Sciences is a world-leader in developing robot hardware for new aerospace applications. We develop and apply state-of-the-art technologies in sensing, actuation, planning, design, and system verification & validation to bring innovative robot prototypes to life.

Specific Responsibilities:

The Robotics Engineer contributes to conceptualizing, designing, building, testing, and demonstrating robot prototypes, in dynamic simulation, controlled lab settings, hardware-in-the-loop aircraft simulations, and in flight on full-scale aircraft.

Position is available for both hardware and software-oriented roboticists.

Minimum Requirements:

0 – 10 years experience.

Must be a US Person (citizen or permanent resident)

Candidates must have demonstrated interest and ability to design and build robots.

Candidates must have excellence in at least one of the following, and a working knowledge or interest in a majority of the others:

• Real-time computation

• Power electronics

• Trajectory planning

• Electromechanical system design

• Machine vision

• Rapid prototyping

• Dynamic simulation

• Tactile sensing

• Math

• Low-level motor control

• Acceptance testing of physical robot hardware

• Real-time control of multi-DOF robots

• Software engineering

• Communication protocols

• Embedded systems

Candidates should have a zeal for working on high-functioning and diverse teams and for making real systems work.

Physical Requirements:

Occasionally required to travel

Shift Requirements:

Occasionally required to work non-business hours to support experiments and travel to customer sites

Aurora Flight Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer