UAV Development Technical Lead

Destinus · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Full Time
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What's better than seeing your work make a real-world impact? Watching things actually get built. Is that what made you an engineer in the first place? And have you ever been let down by how long it takes for anything to actually happen?

At Destinus, things happen fast. You'll be asked to deliver, to iterate, and to deliver again.

In this role you'll take full technical responsibility for one of our platforms and guide it to its next level. You'll provide technical direction to your team and advise on where to take it — whether that's mechanical design, electrical engineering, integration, flight testing, or anything else, really. You'll do all of it while growing together with the company, and knowing your work matters: contributing to our security right here, in Europe. If you want to make an impact and you thrive in an environment with plenty of ambiguity, why not apply?

To be successful in this role, you'll have spent substantial time in the drone industry already. You've taken UAV systems — fixed-wing, VTOL, hybrid — from concept to a compliant, flight-ready platform, through the full UAV development cycle: design to flight and everything in between. And you want to do it again.

You specialize in one of the areas that will report to you, and you're happy to contribute hands-on to it daily. In the others you're not an expert, but your knowledge runs deep enough to weigh the trade-offs when a decision has to be made. Because that's what this job is: deciding how we keep improving our platforms.

That's a lot. But you already know how rewarding it is when the platform finally takes off — and it's thanks to you.

Requirements

You have experienced the entire UAV development lifecycle. Ideally, you feel most confident when it comes to flight testing and systems engineering. You have shipped products before. You know what it takes to make things happen and you want to make them happen.

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