Communication Engineer – Swarm Connectivity

Communication Engineer – Swarm Connectivity

Full-Time | Core Team

LAT Aerospace | Perception & Autonomy

At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter — developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LAT’s autonomy architecture.

We’re hiring a Communication Engineer who will design, evaluate, and optimize the mesh communication layer that forms the backbone of LAT’s swarm stack.

What you’ll do?

• Select, evaluate, and integrate mesh radios suitable for UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-ground communication in dynamic swarm operations.
• Optimize RF performance — link budgets, throughput, latency, channel selection, antenna design, and interference management for multi-agent environments.
• Design swarm communication architectures supporting low-latency state sharing, decentralized coordination, and minimal-dropout operation at scale.
• Conduct real-world range, penetration, and reliability testing across terrain types, altitudes, and operational scenarios.
• Implement adaptive networking strategies: dynamic routing, link-quality estimation, fallback channels, and bandwidth prioritization.
• Evaluate and integrate COTS radios, SDR platforms, advanced antennas, and proprietary mesh systems as needed.

What we're looking for?

• Strong fundamental understanding of RF systems, wireless communication, and mesh networking protocols (802.11s, MANETs, OLSR, DSDV, BATMAN, etc.).
• Experience with radio modules, SDRs, antennas, and integrating communication hardware into embedded systems.
• Experience with networking metrics, packet-level debugging, and tools like Wireshark, iperf, spectrum analyzers, SDR toolchains, etc.
• Comfortable working with embedded Linux, radio drivers, and networking stacks.
• Ability to test communication performance in field deployments and iterate based on real-world data.

Why LAT?

• Core-team role building the autonomy brain of India’s most ambitious aerospace startup.
• Ownership, speed, and the opportunity to define a new class of systems from scratch.