Flight Controls Law Engineer
Sarla Aviation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 20, 2026
About Sarla Aviation:
Sarla Aviation is at the forefront of revolutionizing urban air mobility with its advanced eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft featuring innovative tilt-rotor technology. As a pioneer in the development of sustainable, efficient, and safe air transportation systems, Sarla Aviation is shaping the future of next-generation aviation. We are seeking a skilled and motivated Flight Controls Law Engineer (4–5 years’ experience) to join our expanding engineering team and contribute to the development and certification of our fly-by-wire eVTOL aircraft.
Job Description:
As a Flight Controls Engineer at Sarla Aviation, you will be responsible for the design, development, validation, and verification of flight control laws for a safety-critical fly-by-wire eVTOL platform. You will work closely with flight dynamics, avionics, software, systems, and flight test teams to ensure robust, certifiable, and high-performance control systems across the complete flight envelope—including VTOL, transition, and cruise phases. This role requires strong technical depth in control theory, flight mechanics, and state estimation, along with hands-on experience in simulation, testing, and flight validation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and validate flight control laws for a multi-mode eVTOL aircraft covering hover, transition, and fixed-wing flight regimes.
- Develop linear and nonlinear aircraft dynamic models for control law synthesis, validation, and performance analysis.
- Perform control law synthesis using classical and modern control techniques (PID, LQR, gain scheduling, robust control, etc.).
- Design and implement control allocation strategies for over-actuated propulsion and control surface configurations.
- Develop and tune state estimators (e.g., Kalman Filters, complementary filters) for attitude, velocity, and position estimation.
- Conduct stability, robustness, and handling qualities analysis across the full operating envelope.
- Develop high-fidelity simulation environments (MIL/SIL/HIL) for validation and regression testing.
- Support ground testing, hardware-in-loop testing, and flight test campaigns including real-time tuning and troubleshooting.
- Define control system requirements, verification plans, and validation strategies aligned with certification objectives.
- Collaborate closely with avionics and embedded software teams to support control law implementation and code generation workflows.
- Contribute to safety assessments including FHA, FMEA, and system-level functional hazard analysis for flight controls.
- Participate in documentation and compliance activities supporting certification with regulatory authorities.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, Controls Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 4–5 years of relevant experience in flight control system design and validation for manned or unmanned aircraft.
- Strong proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink for modelling, simulation, and control law development.
- Solid understanding of flight mechanics, rigid-body dynamics, stability and control theory.
- Experience in state estimation, guidance laws, and sensor fusion algorithms.
- Hands-on experience in control law tuning, simulation validation, and flight test support.
- Familiarity with model-based development and auto-code generation workflows.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with fly-by-wire systems and safety-critical software development practices.
- Exposure to certification standards such as DO-178C, DO-331 (Model-Based Development), or ARP4754A.
- Experience working on VTOL, tiltrotor, hybrid-electric, or distributed propulsion aircraft.
- Knowledge of aeroelastic modelling and control-structure interaction considerations.
- Familiarity with HIL/SIL test setups and real-time simulation platforms.
- Experience working with engineering tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Understanding of DGCA, FAA, or EASA certification processes related to flight control systems.
Why Join Us?
- Contribute directly to the development of a next-generation, certifiable eVTOL aircraft.
- Work in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
- Take ownership of technically challenging problems spanning dynamics, control, and flight testing.
- Be part of an organization that values technical rigor, innovation, and operational excellence.