About the job
About BRINC:
At BRINC, we are pioneering advancements in public safety through a transformative ecosystem of life-saving technologies. Our mission began with the creation of drones and ruggedized throw phones designed to penetrate hazardous areas and facilitate communication to resolve critical situations. Today, we have evolved to develop and implement comprehensive 911 response networks, where drones are dispatched to emergency calls, providing real-time visual data that enhances safety and promotes effective de-escalation strategies. Our state-of-the-art solutions are employed by over 600 public safety agencies nationwide, and we have successfully secured over $150 million in funding from notable investors, including Index Ventures, Motorola Solutions, Sam Altman, Dylan Field, Mike Volpe, and Alexandr Wang. At BRINC, we strive to attract top-tier talent dedicated to supporting first responders in their life-saving efforts.
About this Role:
We are on the lookout for a skilled Controls Engineer to join our Autonomy engineering team, focusing on enhancing the guidance, control, and dynamic performance of our UAVs and public safety products. In this role, you will engineer, implement, and optimize real-time control algorithms that ensure stable, agile, and dependable flight performance across various environments and mission profiles. You will engage in state estimation, guidance logic, flight control loops, system identification, and fault-tolerant control architectures, collaborating closely with autonomy, software, hardware, and avionics teams to bring high-performance control systems into our production UAV platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Hold a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, with a minimum of 3 years of industry experience. We welcome applications for mid-career, senior, and principal positions.
Develop flight control algorithms for attitude, rate, position, and trajectory control on multirotor and hybrid UAVs.
Construct guidance and control pipelines for waypoint tracking, precision trajectory execution, and robust autonomous behaviors.
Conduct system identification, dynamic modeling, and parameter estimation to enhance controller accuracy and stability.
Devise resilient and fault-tolerant control strategies that can manage disturbances, sensor failures, and actuator faults.
Implement deterministic, real-time control loops on embedded hardware.
Optimize controllers, oversee gain scheduling, and establish flight envelope protection strategies.

