Drone Engineer Volunteer

Responsibilities:
1. Design and build complete drone systems, including propulsion, power, flight-control, communication, navigation, and onboard electronic systems.
2. Design and develop PCBs for drone electronics, including schematics, component selection, PCB layout, power distribution, sensor interfaces, and communication circuits.
3. Select and integrate motors, ESCs, propellers, batteries, flight controllers, GPS modules, IMUs, sensors, radios, and other electronic components based on system requirements.
4. Configure and integrate flight-control systems such as PX4, ArduPilot, or other appropriate flight-control platforms with the drone’s hardware.
5. Work with Linux-based operating systems and embedded computing environments used for drone development, testing, companion computers, robotics software, and system configuration.
6. Integrate and troubleshoot embedded electronics and firmware, including microcontrollers, sensors, peripheral devices, and communication protocols.
7. Develop and configure reliable communication and telemetry systems between the drone, ground station, remote controller, and onboard systems.
8. Conduct systematic ground and flight testing to evaluate stability, control response, battery performance, propulsion efficiency, communication reliability, and overall system performance.
9. Diagnose and resolve electrical, electronic, power, flight-control, software, and communication faults through testing, measurements, debugging, and hardware or firmware modifications.
10. Implement, test, and improve autonomous flight capabilities, including GPS navigation, waypoint missions, telemetry, return-to-home, failsafes, and other required autonomous functions.

Work arrangement
Yes