Guidance and Control Engineer

As a Guidance and Control Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and scaling Vydar’s next-generation defence technology. You will work closely with our founding team and technical partners to bring our solutions from lab to field deployment. You will develop guidance and control software for constrained hardware and AI edge computing devices used in defense applications. This includes systems for missile platforms, UAVs, drones, and distributed sensing networks.

Building NPU based navigation software for electromagnetic contested environments (no GPS) or interception. You will join a team of 7 to 10 highly skilled engineers with backgrounds in aerospace, microelectronics, embedded hardware and software, and machine vision.

Key Responsibilities   Design, implement, and maintain guidance software using visual data
Identification and offloading computationally heavy algorithms to different parts of SoC
Implementation of machine perception/vision algorithms
Design, implement and maintain application software
Optimize performance, latency, and power consumption
Support field testing, system bring-up, and on-site validation of deployed systems
Requirements  We value enthusiasm, motivation, and a strong willingness to learn.
Please consider applying even if you do not meet all listed requirements.
Degree in Control Systems, Robotics or Aerospace or any other relevant degree
MSc preferred, BSc considered with relevant experience

Experience with control engineering and practical implementation on constraint hardware

Experience with control or guidance engineering including targeting, VIO or optical flow.

Experience with machine vision applications
Ability to debug complex system-level issues independently
Good communication in English (Dutch is a plus)
NATO-friendly citizenship or valid EU work permit
Technologies and Tools   ROS / ROS2
C / C++
Rust
Python
Nice to Have   Preferred:

Experience with NPU utilization in a control and guidance context.
Familiarity with hardware-software integration
Experience in defence, robotics, AI
Previous startup or R&D experience

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