Lead GNC Robotics Engineer (Autonomy, Guidance, Navigation, Control & Simulation) - HayBeeSee｜Meet.jobs

Introduction
HayBeeSee is introducing fundamental change to "agronomy" and farming best-practice utilising state-of-the-art robotics and AI. Meet the CropHopper®, world’s first robot designed for fast and efficient jumping across fields which frequently acts in fields, collecting and processing unique ultra-resolution data as well as targeted weeding and spot spraying, when there is still time to act!

Some of our investors include the London Business Angels, London Co-Investment Fund, Innovate UK, and European Space Agency (ESA BIC) as well as our advisor, ex Head of Future Programmes at Airbus Defence & Space. We have the support from experts such as our advisor Prof Mirko Kovac, Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory in Imperial College London as well as the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge.

We need someone to work as a key member of our world-class team in a rapid design-simulate-build-test cycle environment with a passion for novel hardware & algorithmic design! This is a chance to help drive forward our revolution in agriculture and beyond!

The Role:

• Leading design, analysis and implementation of a robust stack of guidance, navigation, control, estimation and autonomy algorithms for novel aerial-terrestrial jumping robotics platform
• Modelling and simulation of jumping robotics platform, environment and GNC algorithms using industry standard tools and frameworks
• Evaluating and choosing options for hardware and sensing (sensor arrays) to aid in the control, navigation and perception
• Creating ways of ensuring safety and longevity in the product by utilising perception (object detection and scene understanding)
• Working closely with Systems Lead on defining and executing Autonomy/GNC V&V strategy (incl. specific test cases and test systems) based on the requirements
• Contributing to system model identification incl. sub-system level (e.g. propulsion system; jumping system; landing system) and system-level platform/vehicle dynamics
• Contributing to modelling system performance and managing trade-off analysis of the vehicle performance incl. vehicle/system envelope for range & speed and budgets for power, mass, size/volume, CoG, moments of inertia, BoM & assembly cost etc.
• Close collaboration with all other engineering teams: Embedded SW, Computer Vision SW, HW EE, App SW, HW MECH and Manufacturing Partner team

Key Skills:

• 7+ yrs commercial experience with advanced control systems design and analysis
• 5+ yrs commercial experience with development of guidance, navigation and control algorithms for robotics / satellite / automotive / aerospace platforms (with at least two projects from concept / requirements to deployment/production)
• 3+ yrs commercial experience with advanced state estimation (preferred specific for 6DoF attitude using primarily onboard inertial / visual odometry sensors; algorithms incl. EKF/UKF)
• 3+ yrs experience with a wide range of sensors typically used in autonomous vehicles / robotics applications incl. IMU, Vision (RGB, RGB-D), Visual Odometry, GNSS / GPS (incl. RTK), ToF, Radar, LiDAR. Expertise incl. driver API interfacing, configuration, DSP filtering, calibration.
• 3+ yrs experience with simulation tools used in control systems design and GNC (incl. mission & motion planning) for robotics projects (incl. Matlab & Simulink, also Gazebo or other industry standard simulation framework)
• 2+ yrs commercial experience with embedded real-time software dev. in C / C++ (incl. RTOS)

Bonus Skills:

• Commercial experience with flight control systems design (or equivalent control system in other similar motion control problem) incl. 6DoF attitude control and velocity control for MIMO system using classic, robust or adaptive control strategies
• Experience with multi-body motion control problems (system and controller modelling, analysis, syntheis and verification)
• Commercial experience developing safety and navigation perception systems for robotics products incl. object detection, classification and scene understanding utilising vision, ToF, radar and LiDAR
• Commercial experience with C/C++ automatic code generation from Simulink
• Development experience with PX4 drone flight stack
• Contribution to mature open-source or proprietary drone flight stack e.g. PX4 , Ardupilot, Paparazzi
• Real-time 3D trajectory planning and control algorithms
• Embedded Linux for perception, navigation and autonomy systems development in C++
• Experience with software / test development in Python
• STM32 microcontrollers family (particularly F1 / F4 / F7 / H7 / M3 / F100)
• Nvidia Jetson SoM family (TX, Nano, Xavier)
• Motion capture systems (Opti-Track, Vicon)

Resources:

• In-house Advanced Robotics Lab incl. simulated field environment and motion capture system (think of “Mars Yard”)
• State-of-the-art tools & work equipment (incl. high spec ultrabook), conference & training budget
• World-class experts in agronomy, novel robotics, mechatronics, materials, avionics & electronics hardware, computer vision and manufacturing technologies

Why should you apply?

• Central role in shaping this early but rapidly growing company
• Help solving a really big and meaningful problem in the industry
• Competitive salary, meaningful share options and attractive benefits package
• Company off-site trips incl. Silicon Valley and Yosemite National Park in California

If interested contact below, or email Tomasz@HayBeeSee.com