About Us
At PAWAAC Drones, we don’t just build drones—we engineer "eyes in the sky" for defense, rescue, and security forces. From Army to NDRF, from ports to police forces, our Quadrotor and DeltaQuad UAVs have flown in some of the toughest, most mission-critical environments.

We’re a tight crew of IITians, DGCA-certified pilots, and makers who believe “good enough” is never enough. If you’re looking for a place where you’ll get your hands greasy, your code tested in the real world, and your ideas airborne you’ve just found it.

The Mission: Why We Need You
Standard flight stacks (PX4/ArduPilot) are built for general-purpose flying. They fail where we operate.

Our drones face high-altitude gusts, maritime salt spray, and aggressive maneuvers that break standard cascade PID loops. We need to rip out the default control allocation and replace it with physics-first, robust control algorithms.

You will not just be a user of the flight stack; you will be its architect. You will lead the Controls & Navigation vertical, owning the mathematical soul of the aircraft.





Core Responsibilities
Flight Stack Architecture: Modify and rewrite core modules of the PX4 flight stack in C++. You must move beyond straightforward parameter tuning and implement custom control allocation matrices and mixing algorithms.
Advanced Control Design: Replace standard PID loops with modern control strategies (e.g., LQR, MPC, or H-infinity) to handle non-linear dynamics and aggressive disturbances.
System Identification: Conduct frequency domain analysis to characterize our custom airframes. You will extract linear state-space models from flight logs to validate your control laws.
State Estimation: Improve the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) implementation to handle sensor noise in GPS-denied or magnetically noisy environments (like ports or ships).
Field Validation: You will not sit in a lab. You will be on the field, deploying code, analyzing flight logs (ULog), and iterating on gains in minutes, not days.

📌 Lead Controls (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pawaac Drones
📍 Bengaluru