Company Description Syntarix Tech Pvt. Ltd. is a technology, consulting and digital transformation company focused on building intelligent, scalable and secure technology solutions. Our work spans Artificial Intelligence, automation, software development, cybersecurity, digital transformation and technology consulting. Syntarix is developing AI led solutions that combine intelligent automation, conversational systems, workflow orchestration and business application integrations to help organizations improve operational efficiency and accelerate business outcomes. Role Description We build AI-enabled autonomous systems for defence and national security: drone-based, situational awareness and mission management platforms. You will be our core hardware and integration engineer, responsible for making the physical system work: integrating compute, sensors, radios and power onto unmanned platforms, and keeping them reliable, compliant and field-ready. You will start on our drone programme, integrating payloads and companion computers onto leased and in-house airframes. You will then own hardware for our future programmes, which may include unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, fixed and mobile sensor nodes, ground control stations and rugged edge-computing systems.

Key Responsibilities
Platform integration
• Integrate companion computers (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson), EO/IR gimbals, rangefinders/LiDAR, GNSS/RTK, mesh radios and other payloads onto drones and other unmanned platforms.
• Design mounts, enclosures, vibration isolation and cable harnesses. Manage mass, centre of gravity and payload limits within platform and certification envelopes.
• Design and validate power distribution: regulated payload rails, BECs, protection circuits and power budgets.
• Work with flight controllers (Pixhawk-standard/PX4/ArduPilot or OEM autopilots), including wiring, interface configuration (UART, CAN/DroneCAN, Ethernet, I2C/SPI) and sensor calibration. Electronics design and debugging
• Design or adapt carrier boards, interface boards, breakout and adapter PCBs, from schematic and layout (KiCad/Altium) through vendor fabrication.
• Diagnose and fix EMI/EMC problems such as GNSS or compass interference from radios and compute, grounding problems and noisy power.
• Use lab instruments (oscilloscope, logic analyser,



spectrum analyser, power analyser, thermal camera) for root-cause analysis. Reliability and environmental readiness
• Plan and run bench, vibration, thermal, endurance and environmental tests. Verify behaviour at temperature extremes, in dust and rain, and at high altitude and low air density.
• Run thrust and endurance tests, battery health characterisation and payload-on performance measurements.
• Contribute to FMEA, hazard logs and safety cases for flight and field trials.
• Work toward relevant standards where needed (e.g., MIL-STD-810/461-style testing, JSS 55555), and prepare evidence for qualification and certification bodies. Supply chain and component compliance
• Select components with traceable origin, and keep a bill of materials with documented country of origin for critical parts (flight controller, ESCs, radios, GNSS/INS, sensors, ground terminals), in line with MoD/Army requirements.
• Evaluate and qualify Indian and non-restricted vendors. Track long-lead items and plan alternates.
• Support lessor and OEM coordination on leased platforms, including modification boundaries, interface documentation and witnessed hardware return or wipe procedures. Field support
• Prepare platforms for trials: pre-flight hardware checks, spares kits, field repair and post-flight inspection.
• Work with the AI/ML, autonomy, embedded and software teams on HITL rigs, test benches and full system integration.
• Keep integration documentation, wiring diagrams, assembly instructions and maintenance procedures current, so other team members and customers can reproduce and support the hardware. Technical leadership
• Lead hardware architecture choices on recent programmes (build, buy, lease or adapt) with cost, schedule and compliance trade-offs.
• Provide hardware scoping, BOMs and effort estimates for proposals (e.g., iDEX, ADITI, Army Design Bureau engagements).




• Mentor technicians and junior engineers as the team grows. Required Qualifications
• B.
Tech/B.
E./M.
Tech in Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, Aerospace, Instrumentation or a related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on hardware experience on drones/UAVs, robotics, avionics, automotive electronics or embedded systems, including systems that have actually flown or been deployed in the field.
• Strong practical electronics

skills:
power electronics, interface protocols (UART, CAN, SPI, I2C, Ethernet), signal integrity basics, soldering and harness fabrication.
• Hands-on experience integrating sensors, cameras or radios with flight controllers or embedded compute.
• Ability to read and create schematics; working PCB design experience in KiCad, Altium or similar.
• Comfortable with lab instruments and systematic debugging.
• Basic mechanical

skills:
CAD for mounts and enclosures (SolidWorks, Fusion 360 or similar), 3D printing and simple fabrication.
• Working knowledge of Linux, enough to bring up and test companion computers. Preferred Qualification
• Experience with PX4 or ArduPilot hardware setup, tuning, log analysis (ULog/DataFlash) and DroneCAN peripherals.
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson carrier boards, camera interfaces (MIPI CSI, GMSL, USB3, GigE) and thermal management for edge compute.
• RF fundamentals: antenna placement, link budgets, interference mitigation, and experience with mesh or long-range datalinks.
• Familiarity with DGCA Drone Rules, QCI type-certification requirements and the MoD/Army component-origin rules.
• Experience with environmental and EMI/EMC testing (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461 or JSS 55555).
• Prior work in defence, aerospace or other mission-critical hardware programmes.
• DGCA Remote Pilot Certificate, or willingness to obtain one. What We Value
• Hands-on ownership: you would rather build, measure and fix than only specify.
• Reliability mindset: you design for vibration, heat, dust, bad power and rough handling from the start.
• Traceability: you document what you build and where every critical part comes from.
• Field-first attitude: you are comfortable fixing a payload issue at a test range with limited tools.

📌 Hardware Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Syntarix Tech
📍 Bengaluru