Drone Operator and Engineer

The role

The Drone Operator and Engineer will build, program, and fly target drones for live fire testing. You will own the fleet end to end, including airframes, firmware, flight profiles, and repairs.

What you will do

• Build, wire, solder, and repair the target drone fleet
• Flash and configure flight controllers and tune aircraft
• Modify ArduPilot source for custom behaviors
• Plan and fly autonomous missions
• Serve as pilot in command at range tests and customer demos
• Own batteries, radios, ground stations, and spares
• Pull flight logs and turn them into usable test data

Required qualifications

• Extensive ArduPilot experience including Mission Planner, parameter tuning, custom builds, and reading logs
• Ability to read, modify, compile, and flash ArduPilot codebase
• FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate
• Experience building drones from bare frames including soldering, wiring, ESCs, motors, power, and RF
• Expert level stick time, manual and autonomous
• Experience fixing a broken aircraft in the field and flying it again the same day

Nice to have

• INAV or Betaflight experience
• Python or C++
• FPV and fixed wing experience
• Prior military or commercial UAS operations background

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a US Person as defined under ITAR (US citizen, US lawful permanent resident, or a protected individual such as a refugee or asylee)

About the company

Sentradel is a defense startup building autonomous, low cost kinetic turret systems designed to defeat Group 1 and low flying Group 2 drone threats.