Autonomy Engineer - Planning and Controls
Skydio, Zurich, Switzerland
The role
The planning algorithms running onboard the vehicle define its behavior, giving our drones their character. You will contribute to the development and implementation of the core motion planning software, touching everything from the low-level stabilization and control, to high level, task specific frameworks.
What you need
- Experience writing software that controls real hardware, e.g. grasping / manipulation of a robotic arm, self-driving cars, any kind of mobile robot
- Configuration and free space representations
- Modern and classical control design methods
- Dynamic programming
- Non-linear optimization
- Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well architected code