Flight Control Engineer - Redundancy Management

Flight Control Engineer - Redundancy Management

Quantum Systems

Gilching, Germany

As a Flight Control (Systems) Engineer – Redundancy Management, you will play a key role in our mission aircraft team, ensuring that our redundant flight control system achieves the required levels of availability and safety. As part of Quantum Systems’ aircraft division, you’ll contribute to one of the most exciting German aviation projects of the years to come.

Working closely with the team around our aircraft activities, your role can span across multiple disciplines - from hands‑on technical work to system‑level responsibility.

Our focus is on getting large airborne platforms into the air and ready for real operational use.

What is your Day-to-Day Mission:

• Design redundancy management concepts incl. timing, cross-system communication, and state synchronization.
• Define requirements for redundancy functions.
• Develop voting algorithms, e.g., for sensor data or actuator commands.
• Design and implement related logics, state machines, and functionalities.
• Develop software for safety-critical applications according to processes from requirements to test artifacts.

What you bring to the team:

• You have a Master’s degree in the field of aerospace engineering (or similar course of studies).
• You already have at least 5 years of professional experience with redundant aerospace systems with hands-on experience using MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow. Further programming languages are beneficial.
• You are interested in automation and safety-critical software development.
• Your open, communicative, very friendly and competent manner makes it easy for you to be seen as an internal expert.
• You are highly self-motivated and drive your area of responsibility forward independently.
• Communication in English is a matter of course for you.