Research Engineer MS Degree

TekWissen LLC

Ann Arbor, MI
1 day ago

$42.02

Highlights

You will focus on designing advanced flight control algorithms, running complex simulations, and taking your work from the lab through prototyping, wind tunnel evaluations, and real-world flight testing. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and validate robust flight control algorithms for tethered and untethered lightweight flying mobility vehicles equipped with electric propulsion systems.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Ann Arbor, MI
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$42.02
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.

Job Title: Research Engineer MS Degree
Location: Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Flight Control Research Engineer to join the Client Mothership Project.
In this role, you will play a critical part in the research and development of next-generation flying mobility solutions.
You will focus on designing advanced flight control algorithms, running complex simulations, and taking your work from the lab through prototyping, wind tunnel evaluations, and real-world flight testing.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and validate robust flight control algorithms for tethered and untethered lightweight flying mobility vehicles equipped with electric propulsion systems.
Improve, optimize, and maintain multi-body simulation models to ensure accurate performance predictions.
Provide hands-on engineering support during wind tunnel evaluations and live flight tests, analyzing data to iterate on designs.
Support the development, testing, and integration of sensor systems.

Required Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or a closely related field (a Master's degree with significant relevant experience will also be considered).
Strong research background and proven experience in flight control systems for both multi-rotor drones and fixed-wing aircraft.
Practical experience working with embedded systems and microcontrollers (e.g., Raspberry Pi, Arduino). Highly Desired Qualifications:
Experience with Model Predictive Control (MPC), sensor fusion, and Extended Kalman Filters (EKF).
Hands-on experience in the end-to-end development, building, and piloting of RC airplanes and custom drones.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.