- Experience deploying drones or autonomous robots and supporting real-world flight or field operations.
- Familiarity with PX4, MAVLink, ground-control systems, or flight-critical software.
- Experience building operator interfaces with React, TypeScript, or Electron, particularly mapping tools or geospatial mission-planning workflows.
- Experience with sensor fusion, state estimation, path planning, or autonomous mission execution.
- Experience integrating payloads, sensors, or embedded controllers over interfaces such as CAN, serial, or Ethernet.
- Experience validating safety-related behaviors through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, fault injection, and field testing.
What Success Looks Like In the First 90 Days You understand how operators plan and execute missions and can trace commands, telemetry, and failure behavior between the ground station, onboard software, flight controller, sensors, and payloads. You have identified the most consequential reliability risks and operator pain points, and the team has a clear plan for what to address first. You have delivered a meaningful vehicle software improvement through simulation and integration testing into an operational release, working with flight operations to verify its behavior in the field.
You have demonstrated both its intended behavior and its response to relevant failures, and improved at least one recurring source of friction in mission planning, operation, testing, deployment, or diagnostics.