Avionics Engineer for Autonomous Drones | Field Deployments

Brumby; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful early stage equity

Job summary

Brumby is building autonomous drones to herd cattle and monitor pasture. The Embedded Systems Engineer will own hardware across aircraft and docks, taking boards from bench power-up to field operation hundreds of kilometres away.

You will design the motherboard and battery-pack, integrate the flight controller and Jetson, tune ArduPilot, and build dock electronics for daily autonomous operation. Based in Sydney, field deployments are regular and Australian working rights are required.

Qualifications

• Own avionics from design to flight, including power, sensors, and flight controller integration.
• Deep experience with ArduPilot and reliable aircraft flight.
• Strong embedded firmware experience in C/C++ on STM32.
• Experience integrating onboard compute with flight controllers and sensors.
• Experience designing and reviewing schematics/PCBs (KiCad preferred).
• Ability to debug hardware/firmware on bench and in field.
• Engineering degree in electrical/electronic/mechatronic.

Responsibilities

• Own the avionics across aircraft, from power and flight control to onboard compute.
• Build electronics and firmware for docks to launch, recover, and charge aircraft autonomously.
• Configure and extend ArduPilot for long-range autonomous mustering.
• Integrate onboard compute with aircraft so autonomy and vision systems work reliably in flight.
• Build hardware that keeps working through heat, dust, rain, vibration and long periods offshore.

Skills

Avionics design

ArduPilot flight control

Embedded firmware in C/C++

Sensor integration

PCB design

Hardware debugging

Reliability testing

Education

Electrical/Electronic/Mechatronic engineering degree

Tools

KiCad

STM32

Job description

Brumby is building autonomous drones to herd cattle and monitor pasture. The Embedded Systems Engineer will own hardware across aircraft and docks, taking boards from bench power-up to field operation hundreds of kilometres away.

You will design the motherboard and battery-pack, integrate the flight controller and Jetson, tune ArduPilot, and build dock electronics for daily autonomous operation. Based in Sydney, field deployments are regular and Australian working rights are required.