Aeroarc - Chief Technical Officer (12-20 yrs)
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop and Design Cutting Edge Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Lead the team of energetic engineers
- Plan and execute flight test plans for new software features, electronics, sensors, and payloads
- Perform hands-on mechanical and electrical integration of new hardware components on the internal fleet of test vehicles for RD and testing
- Troubleshoot and debug any components of a drone in the office or in the field
- Maintenance of vehicles keep the fleet ready for field demonstrations
- Flight performance testing and evaluation of production vehicles
- Participate in defining and validating customer workflows and enhancing User experience
- Coordinate cross-team efforts among Aeroarc engineers to resolve issues identified during flight tests
- Drive collaboration with Aeroarc Developer team, Business Development team and Customer Support team to incorporate customer feedback and feature requests into Aeroarc's product development cycle
- Learn about the domain and competitors to propose new drone applications, as well as improvements in existing applications
- Manage the team of service engineers
Skills/Knowledge/Competencies :
- Experience in flight testing and operating/piloting small UAS and/or RC aircraft (both fixed-wing and multirotor systems)
- Experience in using flight-planning and ground control station softwares
- Familiarity with common UAV platforms, like, Pixhawk, Ardupilot and PX4
- Experience in integrating, operating, and tuning autopilots on a variety of unmanned vehicles
- Basic knowledge of electrical test equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope) and UAS sensors
- Ability to work hands-on with electro-mechanical systems including assembly, disassembly, testing, troubleshooting
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- RF communications fundamentals
- Passionate about aerial robots i.e. drones
- Programming languages and scripting for engineering use (MATLAB, Python)
