UAV Communications Engineer

Alteon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Alteon in Bengaluru is developing autonomous UAV swarms and needs an engineer to build and validate the communication architecture. The role focuses on long-range telemetry, RF design, and reliable networking to keep the swarm connected with a remote Ground Control Station.

You will work with Embedded, Avionics, and flight-test teams to select radios, antennas, and integrate the system with autopilot and swarm software, including testing in real-world conditions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in RF wireless design, analysis, and deployment.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, mesh routing, and multi-hop networks.
• Experience with UAV telemetry systems and MAVLink/ArduPilot/PX4 is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype long-range communication links between UAV swarm and Ground Control Station.
• Specify radios, antennas, and network architecture considering range, latency, and power.
• Integrate comms with avionics, swarm software, and GCS during tests.
• Analyze network performance and optimize routing and recovery when links fail.

Skills

Wireless Communication & RF

Networking

Long-Range Communication

Antennas & Hardware

Embedded & UAV Systems

Job description

About the Role

We are developing autonomous fixed-wing UAVs that will operate together as a swarm , communicate with each other in real time, and maintain connectivity with a Ground Control Station (GCS) hundreds to thousands of kilometers away.

We are looking for an engineer with a strong understanding of wireless communication, RF systems, networking, and long-range telemetry who can help us design a reliable communication architecture for the entire UAV swarm.

This is a hands-on role involving communication-system design, hardware selection, integration, testing, network analysis, and real-world flight testing.

What you’ll do

Working closely with our Embedded, Avionics and flight test teams you will:

• Long-Range Communication: Develop reliable communication between the UAV swarm and a remote Ground Control Station over tens to hundreds of kilometers.

• Network Architecture: Determine how communication should be routed across the swarm, including relay aircraft, multi-hop communication, and recovery when individual links are lost.

• System Design: Select suitable radios, antennas, communication hardware, and network architecture based on range, bandwidth, latency, reliability, weight, and power constraints.

• System Integration: Integrate the communication system with the aircraft avionics, autopilot, swarm software, and Ground Control Station.

Skills and Competencies

We are particularly interested in experience with:

• Wireless Communication & RF: RF communication, SNR, RSSI, interference, fading, multipath, modulation, coding, and wireless propagation.

• Networking: Mesh networking, multi-hop routing, dynamic routing, relay networks, TCP/IP, UDP, redundancy, and network recovery.

• Long-Range Communication: Telemetry radios, sub-GHz systems and long-range RF systems.

• Antennas & Hardware: Omnidirectional and directional antennas, antenna gain, polarization, diversity, amplifiers, filters, RF integration, and antenna placement.

• Embedded & UAV Systems: Embedded Linux, C/C++, Python, MAVLink, ArduPilot/PX4, serial communication, network interfaces, RF modems, and telemetry systems.

Nice to haves

• Strong practical or research experience in wireless communication, RF systems, networking, telemetry, embedded communication systems, autonomous vehicles, UAVs, or similar fields.

• Direct experience with UAV communication, swarm networking, MANET/mesh networks, long-range telemetry, tactical communication systems, or autonomous robotics is highly desirable.