Drone engineer (Contract to fulltime hire)

Avol is building novel autonomous electric blended-wing VTOL aircraft to deliver kidneys, blood, and other urgent medical specimens between hospitals. We’re looking for an individual to build the electronics for the next Avol drone for delivering blood. Your work will be pivotal in developing a new class of aircraft with higher volume, longer range, and more operating areas than any other aircraft today. This job will start as a short 3-month contract, and if (1) the milestones are completed in a timely manner and (2) we like working with each other, it will transition to full-time hire.

About you:

• You deliver. You may enjoy thoughtful conversations, but you know that what matters is delivering quality work with high attention to detail.
• You are a problem-solver. If the first thing you do when faced with a new problem is to find someone to help, this is NOT the job for you.

What you can expect:

• Components are already sourced and assembled. This is primarily a PX4 project.
• Aircraft already built and flies. You’ll be asked to design hinges and other features, perform FEA, and design for manufacturing.
  
• This is 100% in-person at our office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Key qualifications:

• Ability to spec and assemble drone electronics package using off-the-shelf flight controllers, ESCs, PDBs, RX/TX/VTX antennae, GPS, gyros, and other basic components.
• Proficiency with PX4 Autopilot, PX4 development, and Gazebo (or similar).

Things that can set you apart:

• You've designed and built 3+ drones from scratch
• You can CAD extremely well on Solidworks. You can handle complex surfacing, lofted extrusions, and shells. Show us the most complex thing you’ve done on CAD.

Compensation:

• Health insurance and dental included for full-time hire
• $6,000 to $9,000 per month.