Role Name : UAV Communication Engineer Robotics

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nAbout the Company

nManastu Space is a Space Safety and Logistics company focused on making space safe, sustainable, and accessible . We develop technologies to address critical challenges such as space debris mitigation and green propulsion , enabling safer satellite operations, and long-term sustainability of the space ecosystem.

nOur work sits at the intersection of advanced engineering, applied research, and mission-critical systems , requiring deep technical capability and long-term thinking.

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nAbout the Role

nEvery drone we fly carries a flight controller (ArduPilot/PX4, MAVLink) and an embedded Linux companion computer (Rockchip RK3588 / Jetson class) with its own 4G/5G link. Today, our ground station handles one aircraft at a time — video and MAVLink telemetry/control work, but there is no owner and no architecture for running this across a fleet. Security and reliability gaps that don't show up at one drone will surface the moment we add more.

nYou will own the system that moves two independent data streams — low-latency video and bidirectional MAVLink telemetry/control — from all drones simultaneously to one dashboard, reliably, securely, and at fleet scale. This is a build-and-own role: you make the architecture decisions and defend them with measurements, write the pipelines, run the relay infrastructure, and carry a live fleet.

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nResponsibilities

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- Own the system that moves two independent data streams — low-latency video and bidirectional MAVLink telemetry/control — from all drones simultaneously to one dashboard, reliably, securely, and at fleet scale.
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- Make the architecture decisions and defend them with measurements.
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- Write the pipelines, run the relay infrastructure, and carry a live fleet.
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- Architecture for aggregating video + MAVLink telemetry from multiple aircraft onto one dashboard, scaling the system beyond today's single-drone ceiling.
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- Transport selection and defense — evaluating options against latency/bandwidth/reliability/cost budgets and documenting the call in writing (ADRs).
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- Relay infrastructure: deploying and operating media server/SFU and MAVLink routing at fleet scale.
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- Security and reliability by design: per-device authentication, encrypted MAVLink, relay redundancy — built in from the start, not retrofitted.
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- Rapid prototyping of unfamiliar transports or pipelines, measured and validated in days.
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nQualifications

nExperience: Minimum 3 years of working experience

nB.Tech / M.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering

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nRequired Skills

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- Broad working knowledge of the real-time transport landscape — SRT, WebRTC, RTSP/RTP, RTMP, MQTT, VPN/overlay networks, raw UDP — with production depth in at least 2–3 of them.
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- Proven architecture-selection ability: can evaluate options against latency/bandwidth/reliability/cost budgets, choose, and defend the choice in writing (ADRs).
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- Rapid prototyping habit: can build a working proof-of-concept of an unfamiliar transport or pipeline in days, measure it,



and land a explicit conclusion.
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- Deep Linux networking: UDP/TCP internals, NAT/CGNAT traversal, VPNs; fluent with tcpdump/Wireshark.
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- Experience transporting device telemetry or control data over unreliable networks (MQTT, raw UDP protocols, or similar) with delivery guarantees and per-device authentication.
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- Has deployed and operated server-side media infrastructure: a media server or SFU (MediaMTX, SRS, Janus, LiveKit) or equivalent relay work.
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- Codec literacy at the systems level: how GOP/keyframes/bitrate interact with transport and recovery (not encoder implementation).
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- Python plus one of C++/Go; server ops basics (VPS provisioning, TLS/certs, systemd).
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nPreferred Skills

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- MAVLink ecosystem: mavlink-router, sysid-based multi-vehicle routing, MAVLink 2 signing.
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- MQTT brokers in production: QoS levels, last-will, per-device credentials at fleet scale.
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- coturn/TURN operations; WebRTC data channels.
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- GStreamer/FFmpeg familiarity — enough to reproduce and debug streams end-to-end at the boundary with the embedded engineer.
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- Has shipped video-over-cellular or teleoperation backend before (drone, bodycam, AV, broadcast contribution).
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- VPN overlays in production: WireGuard, Tailscale/ZeroTier.
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- Stream observability: latency/loss/jitter instrumentation, Grafana-class monitoring.
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- Cloud recording and object-storage lifecycle design (S3/B2/R2).
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nWho Does Well Here

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- Operates without support — builds from nothing, ships without a team behind them, owns mistakes.
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- Defends technical decisions in writing and works the boundary with the embedded/firmware engineer and ops without friction.
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📌 UAV Communication Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Manastu Space
📍 Mumbai