Autonomy Engineer, Interceptor Drones
IMPACT Drones, Los Angeles, California
The role
We are Jasper and Alessandro, the founders of Impact Drones (YC S26). We are hiring an autonomy engineer in Los Angeles to make SABLE, our jet interceptor, fly the intercept on its own: from a radar track, to the onboard camera, to terminal guidance. Jasper (aerospace engineer, MSc, TU Delft) has built drones for over a decade, including the Hannover Messe VTOL competition winner, and worked with special forces on the 2025 NATO Summit counter-drone plan; Alessandro (MSc, Columbia) built the pipeline behind our 176M USD in signed LOIs.
In March 2026, Iranian drones struck three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. Fiber-optic FPV drones cannot be jammed. The only thing that stops them is a physical intercept. That is what we build.
What you will do
- The handoff from the container's radar track to SABLE's onboard tracker.