Hybrid Forward Deployed System Integration Engineer – L2, UAV Robotics

at FIDUCIAL

• Job title: Forward Deployed System Integration Engineer – L2, UAV Robotics
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Linux, Shell Scripting
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Delft, Netherlands

About the role

• Forward Deployed System Integration Engineer integrating UAV solutions in real-world contexts. Hands-on work with drone hardware and deploying software on various UAV platforms in military applications.

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of the deployment team responsible for deploying autonomy solutions across diverse UAV platforms.
• Work hands-on with UAV hardware: assembling, wiring, debugging, and preparing platforms for field deployment.
• Travel to partner sites, including international locations, to work on-site and ensure the solutions function reliably in demanding real-world conditions ("in the dirt").
• Integrate and test full-stack autonomy solutions on partner platforms, often in close collaboration with partner engineering teams.
• Provide structured and actionable feedback to the product development team, based on observations from field tests and operational flights.
• Contribute to improving interfaces between autonomy algorithms and flight controllers, helping shape a more robust deployment pipeline.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency of working in a fully terminal-based Linux environment, shell scripting for automation and deployment tasks, Linux file system and command-line tools, and debugging system-level issues using the Linux terminal.
• Solid understanding of UAV components and hardware, including battery management and practical electronics, with hands-on experience. Ideally you have built, flown, and debugged a drone yourself.
• Proven experience working with drone flight controllers such as Ardupilot or Betaflight.
• A willingness to pick up and learn new concepts quickly and to self-acquire missing background knowledge.
• Adaptability under unforeseen circumstances and ability to think and act under pressure.
• A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit in making cool tech work.
• Demonstrated ownership in work assigned to you, while taking initiative to drive improvements that benefit the wider team.
• Being comfortable with regular travel within the EU region, often over extended duration (up to 3 weeks at a time, followed by 2 weeks or more on-site).

Benefits

• 25 vacation days per year.
• Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.
• Traveling abroad to work with our partners.
• (Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week (when not abroad).
• Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology.
• Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions, project ownership is incredibly important to us.
• The opportunity to take technical risks, to implement stuff the ‘right’ way and to iterate quickly with tight feedback loops. We are innovating, learning is to be expected.
• Responsibility over the things you implement, you are the expert on what you build.