Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA
JOB TITLE Temporary Research Engineer LOCATION Worcester DEPARTMENT NAME Robotics Engineering - JM DIVISION NAME Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY We are looking for a Temporary Research Engineer to design, prove out, and fly safety-critical control systems for multirotor aircraft. You will develop control and runtime-assurance methods with real guarantees, then push them onto flight hardware and validate them in the air. JOB DESCRIPTION Key Responsibilities: Safety-critical control design Develop and analyze control algorithms for quadrotors and other multirotors, including geometric control on SE(3), nonlinear MPC, robust and adaptive control, and disturbance observers. Design safety filters and constraint-enforcement layers using methods such as control barrier functions, reachability analysis, and contraction metrics. Derive and document stability, robustness, and safety guarantees, including the assumptions...