Avionics Lead (2-week contract, NYC area, on-site)

We’re looking for a hands-on RC aircraft builder/pilot to help us get a custom shaped blimp inflatable (LTA + tilt-rotor VTOL) flying outdoors.

This is a 2-4 week, full-time, on-site contract focused on real flight and simulation. You’ll be working directly on a non-standard aircraft with custom control mixing, thrust vectoring, and field testing.

What you’ll be doing

• ArduPilot Plane on Pixhawk Cube Orange
• Custom mixer logic, and programming (tilt rotors, nonstandard geometry)
• Full avionics integration (GPS, telemetry, power, ESCs, servos)
• Failsafes (RC/GPS/telemetry loss, etc.)
• Hands-on wiring (crimping, soldering, looms)
• Managing physics simulations to tune with hardware in the loop
• Outdoor flight testing + piloting

You should have

• Built, wired, programmed, and flown your own RC aircraft
• Strong ArduPilot / Pixhawk experience
• Experience with unusual configs (VTOL, vectored thrust, etc.)
• Comfort debugging hardware + control issues in the field

To apply

Send links/photos of 3+ aircraft you’ve personally built and flown