Simulation Engineer - Drone Physical Models Integration

About the role

The Tooling team is seeking a Simulation Engineer to integrate physical models of drones, including aerodynamics, propulsion, and sensors, into the company's simulator software stack. You will collaborate with domain experts to translate requirements into performant, maintainable code and define fidelity targets for various autonomous defense system applications. This role requires a balance of physics knowledge and software engineering expertise to ensure simulations faithfully reproduce real-world drone behavior.

Responsibilities

• Coordination with Domain Experts: Work with the teams in charge of aerodynamics, propulsion, electronics, sensors, and electromechanical systems to understand their models, their assumptions, and their inputs and outputs, and to agree on how they are delivered to the simulator.
• Model Integration: Integrate these models into the simulator software stack in a clean, performant, and maintainable way, with clear interfaces and configurable parameters.
• Validation: Define and run tests that check the integrated models against the reference data given by the expert teams (flight logs, bench tests, manufacturer data), and report discrepancies back to the model owners.
• User Needs & Fidelity Targets: Work with the simulator users (GNC, Embedded, Validation) to understand their use cases, and translate them into a realism target for each model.
• Documentation & Standards: Document the integrated models, their parameters, validity domains, and validation results, and help standardise the model integration and validation process.

Required skills

• C++
• Python
• Linux
• Flight dynamics
• Software integration
• Validation

Nice to have

• Drones
• Robotic systems
• PX4
• ArduPilot
• Flight testing
• Test benches
• Log analysis
• French

Qualifications

• MSc or BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Applied Physics, or a similar technical field
• Equivalent professional experience

About the Company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.