Principal Flight Control Systems Engineer

Company Overview:

Jaunt Air Mobility Canada is an aerospace and air mobility pioneer dedicated to the design, certification, and high-rate manufacturing of clean-technology VTOL aviation platforms. Operating as a core pillar of the AIRO Group’s Electric Air Mobility division, Jaunt Canada leverages world-class aerospace engineering and localized supply chains to deliver industry-leading transport solutions. Our current flagship program, the Jaunt JC250, is an advanced hybrid-electric, slowed-rotor VTOL cargo platform engineered for high-endurance, high-reliability Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) logistics. Headquartered with a strong professional engineering and operational presence in Montreal and Mirabel, Quebec, Jaunt Canada is bridging the gap between abstract aerospace design and certified, real-world embedded implementation

Position Overview:

As a Level 4 Flight Control Systems Engineer, you are responsible for designing and simulating specific flight-critical control allocation and transition logic routines for the hybrid-electric slowed-rotor architecture. In this advanced engineering role, you will own distinct portions of the fly-by-wire control loop architecture, bridging the gap between abstract aerodynamic design and deterministic embedded implementation on the vehicle's dual Flight Control Computers. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary propulsion, avionics, and safety teams to develop, mature, and validate the flight control software from concept modeling through integrated hardware-in-the-loop validation and prototype flight clearing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and refine control laws governing the aerodynamic transition from rotor-borne vertical lift to wing-borne forward cruise flight.
• Develop multi-variable control allocation algorithms that blend main rotor collective and cyclic pitch commands with differential wing-mounted propulsor thrust and fixed aerodynamic surfaces like flaperons, elevators, and rudders.
• Integrate parallel hybrid energy-constraint logic into core Flight Control Computer algorithms to dynamically balance transient battery discharge power margins against continuous internal combustion engine generator output.
• Implement robust flight envelope protection logic to enforce structural and aerodynamic safety boundaries, including pitch, bank, airspeed, rotor RPM, and load factor limits.
• Configure deterministic software state machines for cross-channel monitoring, sensor voting, and automatic failover handling across dual Flight Control Computers.
• Execute and document extensive Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulations to validate control loop robustness, Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) logic, and emergency landing autonomy.

Qualifications:

• Proven background in aircraft fly-by-wire flight control laws, multi-rotor thrust vectoring, or helicopter/tiltrotor flight mechanics.
• Demonstrated history of utilizing MATLAB and Simulink for the modeling, simulation, and analysis of multi-variable dynamic systems.
• Direct experience generated using embedded autocoding pipelines to deploy real-time software onto target flight hardware.
• Practical exposure to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing facilities, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and safety-critical system development workflows.
• Strong collaborative and communications baseline necessary to coordinate complex multi-system interfaces across propulsion, electrical, and systems safety structures.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

• Standing and sitting for extended periods of time,
• Lifting up to 25 pounds in a safe and prudent manner,
• Ability to work and communicate well with other employees and management, customers, visitors, vendors.
• Ability to perform work utilizing manual dexterity of the hands,
• Ability to push, pull, bend, stoop, reach above and below shoulders, and full use of upper extremities,
• Ability to easily move through an approximately 25,000 square foot warehouse building,
• Ability to read, write, and understand French,
• Correctable vision and hearing.