Sr Lead UAV Engineer

Marut Dronetech Pvt Ltd; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Marut Drones in India seeks a Senior Lead UAV Engineer to spearhead the design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of advanced UAV systems. You will guide a team of UAV engineers, drive R&D and product innovation, and ensure safety, reliability, and scalability across the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on UAV industry experience, expertise in system integration, flight controls, avionics, propulsion, and cross-functional collaboration with R&D,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of UAV/drone industry experience with hands-on design and deployment.
• Experience in multirotor, fixed-wing, or hybrid UAV systems.
• Proven ability to integrate mechanical, electrical, avionics, propulsion, and payload systems.
• Strong flight dynamics knowledge and autopilot systems expertise.
• Hands-on hardware-software integration across UAV platforms.
• Experience with UAV testing, validation, and failure analysis.
• 2+ years in technical leadership guiding UAV engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and integration of UAV systems and subsystems.
• Provide technical direction across propulsion, flight control, power, avionics, and payloads.
• Mentor engineers and foster a collaborative, high-performance team.
• Oversee system integration across mechanical, electrical, software, and hardware domains.
• Drive R&D and product innovation to enhance UAV performance and capabilities.
• Lead testing, flight validation, and corrective action workflows.

Skills

UAV System Integration

Flight Control & Flight Dynamics

Avionics & Autopilot Systems

UAV/Drone Industry Experience

UAV Design & Development

UAV Flight Testing & Validation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

CAD

CAM

PLM tools

Job description

Senior Lead UAV Engineer Job Description

Marut Drones is seeking an experienced Senior Lead UAV Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems. The role involves leading a team of UAV engineers, driving R&D and product innovation, and ensuring the technical performance, safety, reliability, and scalability of drone systems throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in the UAV/Drone industry, along with proven expertise in UAV system architecture, flight controls, avionics, propulsion, system integration, testing, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead UAV Development: Lead the design, development, and integration of UAV systems and subsystems, ensuring performance, safety, reliability, and scalability. Provide technical direction across propulsion, flight control, power, avionics, communication, and payload systems.
• Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and mentor a team of UAV engineers. Provide technical guidance, establish engineering best practices, review designs, and foster a collaborative and high-performance engineering environment.
• UAV System Integration: Oversee the integration of mechanical, electrical, avionics, software, propulsion, power, communication, flight-control, and payload systems to develop fully functional UAV platforms.
• R&D and Innovation: Drive UAV R&D and product innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, developing new features, improving existing systems, and identifying opportunities to enhance UAV performance and capabilities.
• Testing and Validation: Lead UAV system testing, ground testing, flight testing, validation, and performance evaluation. Identify technical issues, conduct failure analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Design Optimization: Continuously evaluate and optimize UAV designs to improve flight performance, payload capacity, endurance, reliability, efficiency, and overall system performance using engineering analysis and simulation tools.
• Quality, Safety & Compliance: Ensure UAV designs and systems meet applicable safety, quality, regulatory, and certification requirements. Participate in design reviews, technical audits, risk assessments, and safety evaluations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with R&D, manufacturing, production, testing, operations, sales, and other cross-functional teams to ensure UAV products meet technical, production, customer, and business requirements.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle, from concept development and prototyping to testing, validation, production, deployment, and continuous improvement.
• Technical Documentation & Reporting: Maintain technical documentation including design specifications, engineering reports, test plans, test results, design reviews, and failure analysis reports. Present technical updates and recommendations to senior management.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Mandatory UAV/Drone Industry Experience: 7+ years of professional experience specifically in the UAV/Drone industry, with hands-on experience in UAV design, development, system integration, testing, and deployment.
• UAV Design & Development: Strong experience designing and developing multirotor, fixed-wing, or hybrid UAV systems.
• UAV System Integration: Proven experience integrating mechanical, electrical, avionics, propulsion, power, communication, flight-control, navigation, and payload systems.
• Flight Control & Dynamics: Strong understanding of UAV flight dynamics, stability, navigation, flight-control systems, and autopilot systems.
• Avionics & UAV Components: Strong knowledge of flight controllers, motors, ESCs, batteries, GPS/GNSS, sensors, telemetry, communication systems, and other UAV components.
• Hardware & Software Integration: Hands-on experience integrating UAV hardware with flight-control software, firmware, sensors, and onboard systems.
• Flight Testing & Validation: Practical experience in UAV flight testing, system validation, performance evaluation, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
• R&D and Product Development: Proven experience taking UAV products from concept and prototyping through testing, validation, and deployment.
• Technical Leadership: Minimum 2 years of experience leading UAV engineering teams or technical projects, with the ability to mentor engineers and provide technical direction.
• Regulatory & Safety Compliance: Working knowledge of applicable UAV regulations, safety standards, certification requirements, and compliance processes.
• Engineering & Simulation Tools: Experience with relevant UAV engineering tools such as CAD, MATLAB/Simulink, simulation, analysis, CAM, and PLM tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 4- 6 years of professional experience in the UAV/drone industry is mandatory.
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role within UAV/Drone engineering is mandatory.
• Proven track record of designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying UAV systems.
• Strong hands-on experience across UAV hardware, avionics, flight control, propulsion, power, navigation, communication, and payload systems.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including R&D, manufacturing, testing, production, and operations.
• Experience with UAV regulatory compliance, certification, quality assurance, and safety processes is highly preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with agricultural, industrial, commercial, or other application-specific UAV platforms.
• Experience with UAV autopilot platforms and flight-control systems.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink or other UAV simulation and modelling tools.
• Experience with UAV certification and regulatory processes.
• Experience with product development, prototyping, and design-for-manufacturing.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and technical communication skills.

Compensation

Competitive compensation, open to discussion based on experience, technical expertise, and role fit.

Required Skills

• UAV System Integration
• Flight Control & Flight Dynamics
• Avionics & Autopilot Systems
• UAV/Drone Industry Experience
• UAV Design & Development
• UAV Flight Testing & Validation