UAS System Engineer – ArduPilot & Flight Control

We are looking for an experienced  UAS System Engineer  to join our airborne systems engineering team and serve as a key technical authority for  ArduPilot-based unmanned aircraft systems , including multirotor and fixed-wing platforms.

The role requires a strong system-engineering background combined with  deep, hands-on expertise in ArduPilot , flight control, aircraft sensors, avionics, and system integration.

The engineer will support the airborne system engineering team across aircraft development, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and flight operations, and will work closely with software, avionics, control, mechanical, and flight-test teams.

A key aspect of the role is the ability to bridge  aircraft behavior, flight-control logic, ArduPilot configuration, and software implementation .

The ideal candidate is not only an ArduPilot user, but a system engineer who understands  why the aircraft behaves the way it does  and can connect aircraft-level behavior to the underlying system architecture.

The candidate should be capable of moving seamlessly between:

Aircraft Dynamics → Sensors → ArduPilot → Flight Control → Parameters → Logs → Software → Flight Behavior

and be able to identify, analyze, and resolve system-level issues across these domains.

• B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

• Proven experience in  UAS system engineering .

• Extensive hands-on experience with ArduPilot is mandatory.

• Deep understanding of ArduPilot configuration, parameters, flight modes, logging, and system behavior.

• Strong experience analyzing ArduPilot flight logs and diagnosing complex aircraft/system behavior.

• Strong understanding of flight dynamics, aircraft stability, and flight-control systems.

• Hands-on experience with control-loop and  PID tuning .

• Experience integrating sensors and avionics into unmanned aircraft.

• Understanding of navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, and airborne sensor architectures.

• Strong understanding of the interaction between software, flight-control systems, avionics, sensors, and aircraft dynamics.

• Proven ability to work effectively with embedded and application software development teams.

• Strong multidisciplinary system-engineering capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both  multirotor and fixed-wing UAS platforms .

• Experience modifying, extending, or developing functionality within ArduPilot.

• Familiarity with the ArduPilot source code and software architecture.

• Experience with MAVLink and related communication interfaces.

• Experience with SITL/HIL simulation environments.

• Experience with scripting and engineering analysis tools such as Python or MATLAB.

• Experience with high-performance or highly dynamic unmanned aircraft.

• Experience with flight-test engineering and flight-data analysis.