Role & responsibilities

- Lead UAV Development: Lead the design, development, and integration of UAV systems and subsystems, ensuring performance, safety, reliability, and scalability. Provide technical direction across propulsion, flight control, power, avionics, communication, and payload systems.
- Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of UAV engineers. Provide technical guidance, establish engineering best practices, review designs, and foster a collaborative and high-performance engineering environment.
- UAV System Integration: Oversee the integration of mechanical, electrical, avionics, software, propulsion, power, communication, flight-control, and payload systems to develop fully functional UAV platforms.
- R&D; and Innovation: Drive UAV R&D; and product innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, developing new features, improving existing systems, and identifying opportunities to enhance UAV performance and capabilities.
- Testing and Validation: Lead UAV system testing, ground testing, flight testing, validation, and performance evaluation. Identify technical issues, conduct failure analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Design Optimization: Continuously evaluate and optimize UAV designs to improve flight performance, payload capacity, endurance, reliability, efficiency, and overall system performance using engineering analysis and simulation tools.
- Quality, Safety & Compliance: Ensure UAV designs and systems meet applicable safety, quality, regulatory, and certification requirements. Participate in design reviews, technical audits, risk assessments, and safety evaluations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with R&D;, manufacturing, production, testing, operations, sales, and other cross-functional teams to ensure UAV products meet technical, production, customer,



and business requirements.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle, from concept development and prototyping to testing, validation, production, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Technical Documentation & Reporting: Maintain technical documentation including design specifications, engineering reports, test plans, test results, design reviews, and failure analysis reports. Present technical updates and recommendations to senior management.

Preferred candidate profile

- Mandatory UAV/Drone Industry Experience: 7+ years of professional experience specifically in the UAV/Drone industry, with hands-on experience in UAV design, development, system integration, testing, and deployment.
- UAV Design & Development: Robust experience designing and developing multirotor, fixed-wing, or hybrid UAV systems.
- UAV System Integration: Proven experience integrating mechanical, electrical, avionics, propulsion, power, communication, flight-control, navigation, and payload systems.
- Flight Control & Dynamics: Strong understanding of UAV flight dynamics, stability, navigation, flight-control systems, and autopilot systems.
- Avionics & UAV Components: Strong knowledge of flight controllers, motors, ESCs, batteries, GPS/GNSS, sensors, telemetry, communication systems, and other UAV components.
- Hardware & Software Integration:



Hands-on experience integrating UAV hardware with flight-control software, firmware, sensors, and onboard systems.
- Flight Testing & Validation: Practical experience in UAV flight testing, system validation, performance evaluation, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
- R&D; and Product Development: Proven experience taking UAV products from concept and prototyping through testing, validation, and deployment.
- Technical Leadership: Minimum 2 years of experience leading UAV engineering teams or technical projects, with the ability to mentor engineers and provide technical direction.
- Regulatory & Safety Compliance: Working knowledge of applicable UAV regulations, safety standards, certification requirements, and compliance processes.
- Engineering & Simulation Tools: Experience with relevant UAV engineering tools such as CAD, MATLAB/Simulink, simulation, analysis, CAM, and PLM tools.

Qualifications

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.
- 4- 6 years of professional experience in the UAV/drone industry is mandatory.
- 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role within UAV/Drone engineering is mandatory.
- Proven track record of designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying UAV systems.
- Strong hands-on experience across UAV hardware, avionics, flight control, propulsion, power, navigation, communication, and payload systems.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including R&D;, manufacturing, testing, production, and operations.
- Experience with UAV regulatory compliance, certification, quality assurance, and safety processes is highly preferred.

📌 UAV/Drone R&D Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 AMF
📍 Hyderabad