About the Role

As the Head of Firmware, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of embedded software across all UAV flight platforms. You will re-define the entire hardware architecture of unmanned aerial vehicles. You will manage a growing team of embedded engineers, and ensure the successful integration of several sub-systems (meeting Mil grade standards) with onboard hardware. Your work will directly impact aircraft safety, responsiveness, and feature capabilities.

You’ll also collaborate closely with autonomy, hardware, perception, and systems integration teams to ensure smooth end-to-end operation from sensor to sky.

Key Responsibilities
- Firmware Architecture & Development
- Own and evolve the firmware architecture for UAV flight systems, ensuring modularity, scalability, and performance.
- Lead the design and development of high performance flight controllers meeting DO-178 standards.
- Develop sub-systems required to perform end-to-end operations (Launch platforms, Charging infra, Base stations, communication Equipment etc)




- Work with high speed interfaces for motor control, sensor input(GPS, IMUs, barometers, Lidar etc.), telemetry, and power management to create smart sub-systems in UAVs.
- Ensure low-latency, deterministic, and fail-safe execution on embedded platforms.
- Testing, Reliability & Validation
- Define and drive the firmware testing strategy, including:
- Unit testing
- HIL/SIL simulations
- Regression testing
- Flight validation and fault injection
- Ensure the firmware meets real-time performance, safety, and reliability goals under varying mission conditions.
- Own firmware reliability metrics and track bug resolution and release cycles.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with:
- Hardware team for board bring-up, sensor interfaces, and power systems.
- Autonomy and controls teams to ensure closed-loop control systems are stable and productive.
- Systems integration to support test campaigns, tuning, and logs.

📌 Lead - Firmware (UAVs) (Bengaluru)
🏢 UNMANND
📍 Bengaluru