Key Responsibilities:

- - Design, develop, and validate flight control laws for a multi-mode eVTOL aircraft covering hover, transition, and fixed-wing flight regimes.

- Develop linear and nonlinear aircraft dynamic models for control law synthesis, validation, and performance analysis.

- Perform control law synthesis using classical and modern control techniques (PID, LQR, gain scheduling, robust control, etc.).

- Design and implement control allocation strategies for over-actuated propulsion and control surface configurations.

- Develop and tune state estimators (e.g., Kalman Filters, complementary filters) for attitude, velocity, and position estimation.

- Conduct stability, robustness, and handling qualities analysis across the full operating envelope.

- Develop high-fidelity simulation environments (MIL/SIL/HIL) for validation and regression testing.

- Support ground testing, hardware-in-loop testing, and flight test campaigns including real-time tuning and troubleshooting.

- Define control system requirements, verification plans, and validation strategies aligned with certification objectives.

- Collaborate closely with avionics and embedded software teams to support control law implementation and code generation workflows.

- Contribute to safety assessments including FHA, FMEA, and system-level functional hazard analysis for flight controls.

- Participate in documentation and compliance activities supporting certification with regulatory authorities.





Required Qualifications:

- - Master s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Controls Engineering, or a related discipline.

- 4 5 years of relevant experience in flight control system design and validation for manned or unmanned aircraft.

- Strong proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink for modelling, simulation, and control law development.

- Solid understanding of flight mechanics, rigid-body dynamics, stability and control theory.

- Experience in state estimation, guidance laws, and sensor fusion algorithms.

- Hands-on experience in control law tuning, simulation validation, and flight test support.

- Familiarity with model-based development and auto-code generation workflows.

- Robust analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with fly-by-wire systems and safety-critical software development practices.

- Exposure to certification standards such as DO-178C, DO-331 (Model-Based Development), or ARP4754A.

- Experience working on VTOL, tiltrotor, hybrid-electric, or distributed propulsion aircraft.

- Knowledge of aeroelastic modelling and control-structure interaction considerations.

- Familiarity with HIL/SIL test setups and real-time simulation platforms.

- Experience working with engineering tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

- Understanding of DGCA, FAA, or EASA certification processes related to flight control systems.

📌 Flight Controls Law Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sarla Aviation
📍 Bengaluru