UAS System Engineer (ArduPilot)

Location: Petah Tikva, Israel

Company

hirify.global is hiring for an airborne systems engineering team focused on unmanned aircraft systems.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical focal point for ArduPilot-based multirotor and fixed-wing UAS platforms.
• Lead system engineering activities covering aircraft avionics, flight control, sensors, autopilot functionality, and aircraft-specific ArduPilot configurations.
• Configure, tune, and optimize flight-control loops, including hands-on PID tuning and analysis of aircraft stability, control authority, actuator behavior, oscillations, and axis coupling.
• Analyze ArduPilot flight logs, investigate abnormal aircraft behavior and system failures, perform root-cause analysis, and define corrective actions.
• Integrate sensors and avionics, including IMU, GNSS, magnetometers, air-data, altitude/range, navigation, actuator, propulsion, and mission-specific systems.
• Translate aircraft requirements into software, avionics, and control requirements; support integration, flight testing, telemetry and logging definition, and flight-envelope expansion.

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Proven experience in UAS system engineering and extensive hands-on experience with ArduPilot.
• Deep understanding of ArduPilot configuration, parameters, flight modes, logging, and system behavior.
• Strong experience analyzing ArduPilot flight logs and diagnosing complex aircraft and system behavior.
• Strong understanding of flight dynamics, aircraft stability, and flight-control systems, including hands-on control-loop and PID tuning.
• Experience integrating sensors and avionics into unmanned aircraft.
• Understanding of navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, and airborne sensor architectures.
• Strong understanding of interactions between software, flight-control systems, avionics, sensors, and aircraft dynamics.
• Ability to work effectively with embedded and application software development teams and strong multidisciplinary system-engineering capabilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with both multirotor and fixed-wing UAS platforms.
• Experience modifying, extending, or developing ArduPilot functionality, including familiarity with its source code and software architecture.
• Experience with MAVLink and related communication interfaces.
• Experience with SITL/HIL simulation environments.
• Experience with Python or MATLAB for scripting and engineering analysis.
• Experience with high-performance or highly dynamic unmanned aircraft.
• Experience with flight-test engineering and flight-data analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a multidisciplinary airborne systems engineering team.
• Collaborate with software, avionics, control, mechanical, and flight-test teams.
• Participate in aircraft integration, testing, troubleshooting, and flight operations.