About the Role
We are developing autonomous fixed-wing UAVs that will operate together as a swarm, communicate with each other in real time, and maintain connectivity with a Ground Control Station (GCS) hundreds to thousands of kilometers away.
We are looking for an engineer with a strong understanding of wireless communication, RF systems, networking, and long-range telemetry who can help us design a reliable communication architecture for the entire UAV swarm.
This is a hands-on role involving communication-system design, hardware selection, integration, testing, network analysis, and real-world flight testing.
What you’ll do
Working closely with our Embedded, Avionics and flight test teams you will:
Long-Range Communication: Develop reliable communication between the UAV swarm and a remote Ground Control Station over tens to hundreds of kilometers.
Network Architecture: Determine how communication should be routed across the swarm, including relay aircraft, multi-hop communication, and recovery when individual links are lost.
System Design: Select suitable radios, antennas, communication hardware, and network architecture based on range, bandwidth, latency, reliability, weight, and power constraints.
System Integration: Integrate the communication system with the aircraft avionics, autopilot, swarm software, and Ground Control Station.
Skills and Competencies
We are particularly interested in experience with:
Wireless Communication & RF: RF communication, SNR, RSSI, interference, fading, multipath, modulation, coding, and wireless propagation.
Networking: Mesh networking, multi-hop routing, dynamic routing, relay networks, TCP/IP, UDP, redundancy, and network recovery.
Long-Range Communication: Telemetry radios, sub-GHz systems and long-range RF systems.
Antennas & Hardware: Omnidirectional and directional antennas, antenna gain, polarization, diversity, amplifiers, filters, RF integration, and antenna placement.
Embedded & UAV Systems: Embedded Linux, C/C++, Python, MAVLink, ArduPilot/PX4, serial communication, network interfaces, RF modems, and telemetry systems.
Nice to haves
Strong practical or research experience in wireless communication, RF systems, networking, telemetry, embedded communication systems, autonomous vehicles, UAVs, or similar fields.
Direct experience with UAV communication, swarm networking, MANET/mesh networks, long-range telemetry, tactical communication systems, or autonomous robotics is highly desirable.
