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