Flight Software / Controls Engineer | CTC Upto 50-70 LPA

Company Description

We are an AI stealth startup building sports entertainment 2.0 using physical AI.

We’re building intelligent action-adventure machines that understand the rider, adapt in real time, enforce safety boundaries, and turn physical experiences into games.

We’re starting with water, with the ambition to build a common intelligence layer across water, sand, and low air.

Role Description

• This is a full-time Flight Software / Controls Engineer role working directly with the Founder.
• You will own the flight computer, real-time controls, sensor fusion, safety logic, vehicle logging, and rider adaptation for a new physical AI platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in controls, robotics, autonomy, or embedded systems.
• Experience working on real vehicles such as drones, eVTOLs, ROVs, autonomous vehicles, or watercraft.
• Strong real-time C/C++ or Rust skills.
• Hands-on experience with PID/MPC and multi-axis control systems.
• Experience with IMU, GPS, altimeter, sensor fusion, and state estimation.
• Experience building and analysing high-rate vehicle logging.
• Strong hands-on debugging and vehicle-testing experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the flight-control software and flight computer.
• Develop hover, pitch, roll, and rider-sway controls.
• Build geofencing, height limits, and safety constraints.
• Implement dual-fan kill and fault-response logic.
• Build sensor fusion and 200–1000 Hz logging.
• Develop rider weight/lean adaptation and ride scoring.
• Run bench and on-water testing and tune vehicle behaviour.
• Key Results / KRAs
• Stable hover within ±10° roll and +32°/−12° pitch.
• Zero uncommanded exits across 8 validation cycles.
• Vehicle lands upright during an injected fan fault.
• Complete log generated for every flight.
• Flight code, models, and training data remain fully internal.