The Filia builds autonomous docks that let drones live on industrial and defence sites: launching, landing with centimetre precision, recharging and logging every flight, with no crew on site. Our docks are built for India first: 48 °C summers, dust, monsoon, cold and high-altitude sites, and any approved Indian drone rather than one brand. The design is complete and validated in simulation, our first engineers are building the prototype in Delhi, and we're working with drone makers, energy and defence partners on first deployments. We're now looking for the person who will lead engineering with us. What you'll own You'll be the technical lead across the whole dock and part of the founding team. Day to day that means:
• System architecture: owning how the dock works as one system, the interfaces between subsystems, and the trade-offs between them
• Drone integration: precision landing, the dock-to-drone link, and flight testing across different drone makers
• Batteries and charging: charging strategy across drone battery types, battery safety and health, and the dock's own reserve power
• Thermal and cooling: keeping batteries and electronics in their safe window from 48 °C desert heat to sub-zero, high-altitude sites
• Mechanical and enclosure: the structure, the roof mechanism, sealing against dust and monsoon, and design for manufacture
• Power electronics, controls and firmware: bringing the dock's electronics and software together into something that works in the field
• Testing and qualification:



taking the dock from prototype through environmental testing to first live sites
• Team: leading and reviewing the work of our mechanical, thermal and power engineers, and hiring the team as we grow You might be right for this if
• You've built something real that moves, flies or runs on its own, and can show it: a product, a research platform, a competition drone or vehicle
• You understand systems end to end, from batteries and power to mechanics, thermal and software, and you're deep in at least one of them
• You've worked hands-on with flight or robotics systems (ArduPilot, PX4, ROS, embedded control)
• You like owning outcomes end to end, and you start things before you're asked
• You've led a team, formally or not, through something hard: a student team, a lab project, a product launch
• You want to build infrastructure India needs, and you're energised by the pace of a small founding team Background matters less than proof. Strong candidates often come from IIT, DTU, NSUT, IIIT, BITS or similar programmes, from student drone, robotics and Formula Student teams, or from drone, robotics and EV companies, but what we look at first is what you've built.

What we offer
• A founding role with meaningful equity and a competitive salary
• Real ownership of a product with deployments lined up
• A small, rapid team based in Delhi, working with India's drone ecosystem To apply Apply with your resume or LinkedIn profile, and make sure it links to something you've built (GitHub, video, paper or write-up). We'll follow up with shortlisted candidates.

📌 Founding Engineering Lead, Autonomous Drone Docks (New Delhi)
🏢 The Filia
📍 New Delhi