Engineer-II (Payloads & Controls)

Role Overview: You will be responsible for independently developing different subsystems, performing design and analysis to support research and development of UAVs. Your role will involve creating new designs from scratch or re-designing existing products and taking them through all stages of design & development, testing until final handover to production. Key Responsibilities: - Generate comprehensive component specifications. - Define selection criteria for key components, test and validate them for use in different sub-systems. - Develop practical and innovative mechanical designs for engineering of equipment, systems, and components. - Create a consistent design language/theme for all aspects of a product. Developing Best Practices: - Work with first principles to achieve the highest robustness and value addition of engineering solutions. - Use standardized technology/process/tool choices for continuously improving reliability, predictability, and usability. - Keep up to date with the latest materials, manufacturing technologies, and methodologies. - Establish practices to deliver designs that are highest performance, reliable, scalable to manufacture, easy to maintain, and re-usable. Learning & Growth: - Be motivated to evolve as a senior contributor in the engineering roles in the company in a very short period, based on demonstrated performance. Qualifications: - Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering. - Strong mechanical design instincts, thorough understanding of aerodynamics and flight mechanics. - 5+ years of industry experience in a Design Engineer role. - Hands-on expertise in housing electronic & circuit assembly. - Record of successful execution of hardware products/components. - Worked in an Indian or global company that delivers high-quality systems integrating mechanical hardware and electronics and/or studied at a reputed academic institution while demonstrating initiative and rigor to learn and create innovative engineering solutions. - Deep appreciation for technology evolution and modern engineering practices, quality assurance, testing, configuration & release management, defect management, and associated tools, deployed in world-class product development processes. - Working Knowledge of any parametric modeling CAD software. - Deep insight of high-performance plastics and molding techniques. - Experience with composite materials (carbon, aramid, glass). (Note: Additional details of the company were not provided in the job description),