Droneops

Overview

We are looking for a Flight Team Lead to head the flight team responsible for testing our flagship R&D product — a GPS-denied alternative navigation system. This is a hands-on leadership role: the right candidate is a senior UAV pilot and a strong technician who can also lead, plan, and grow a small team of pilots and technicians.

You will own the flight-testing function end-to-end: team coordination, mission planning, safety, equipment readiness, data quality, and feedback loops back into engineering and research.

Responsibilities

Team leadership & coordination

• Lead and grow the flight team (pilots, pilot-technicians, UAV technicians)
• Plan team workload, shifts, and field deployments
• Set and uphold standards for safety, pre-flight discipline, and equipment care
• Own the team’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): write, update, and improve them as the product and operations evolve; ensure the team consistently follows them in the field
• Onboard, train, and mentor new team members
• Conduct post-flight debriefs and continuously improve team practices
• Be the primary point of contact between the flight team and engineering, research, QA, and integration teams

Mission planning & execution

• Plan and oversee flight test campaigns aligned with R&D and integration priorities
• Define test objectives, acceptance criteria, and risk mitigations together with engineers and researchers
• Ensure proper test documentation, flight logs, and reporting back to the teams that need the data

Technical ownership

• Own the readiness and configuration of the flight team’s UAV fleet
• Oversee maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and spare-parts logistics for airframes and supporting equipment
• Drive root-cause analysis of in-flight failures and turn findings into concrete improvements
• Contribute to selection, bring-up, and integration of new platforms

Requirements

Must-have

• 2+ years of real, hands-on UAV experience covering both piloting and technician work
• Significant real flight time on multirotor UAVs and/or fixed-wings
• Deep understanding of UAV core components (motors, ESCs, FCs, sensors, RC/telemetry links, power systems)
• Advanced Ardupilot expertise: tuning, parameters, custom configurations, failsafes, log analysis
• Strong experience with mission-planning software (Mission Planner)
• Proven diagnostic and repair skills for UAVs and supporting equipment
• Prior experience leading or coordinating a team in a technical / field-operations environment
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and run field campaigns end-to-end
• Strong safety mindset and discipline around procedures

Nice to have

• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education
• Combat experience
• Experience working closely with R&D / engineering teams on test campaigns
• English at B1 level or higher

Personal qualities

• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership
• Calm and decisive under pressure
• Clear communicator with both engineers and field operators
• Mentor-oriented; invested in the growth of the team
• Attention to detail and a process-improvement mindset
• Initiative — moves the team forward without waiting to be asked

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• On-site work with access to hardware and lab facilities
• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

Overview

We are looking for an experienced UAV Pilot-Technician (multirotor) to join the flight team responsible for testing our flagship R&D product — a GPS-denied alternative navigation system. The candidate must confidently operate drones, be technically literate, have a deep understanding of UAV core components, and hands-on experience with Ardupilot-based systems.

The role combines hands-on piloting of multirotor UAVs with testing and technical support of all flight-related aspects.

Responsibilities

• Pilot multirotor UAVs & fixed-wings in field-testing scenarios
• Perform pre-flight checks and UAV setup
• Maintain airframes and supporting equipment
• Support flight planning and adherence to safety procedures
• Troubleshoot and repair UAV hardware issues
• Record and report flight data as needed
• Collaborate with engineers during testing and development of new platforms

Requirements

Must-have

• Real flight time on multirotor UAVs
• Solid understanding of how core UAV components work
• Advanced-user level of Ardupilot
• Experience with mission-planning software (Mission Planner)
• Ability to safely operate a drone in field conditions
• Diagnostic and repair skills for UAVs and supporting equipment

Nice to have

• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education
• Experience with fixed-wing UAVs
• Combat experience
• English at B1 level or higher

Personal qualities

• Responsibility
• Attention to detail
• Communication skills and ability to work in a team
• Initiative

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• On-site work with access to hardware and lab facilities
• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

About the role

We're looking for a software engineer with leadership experience to lead a small team building a product management ecosystem in the defense sector. This is not a purely managerial role — the lead continues writing code and contributing to development while coordinating the team, defining priorities, and owning delivery quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal deployment and product management tooling
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Own Docker-based build and deployment workflows
• Code reviews and technical quality across the team
• Team planning, backlog prioritization, cross-team sync
• Onboarding and mentoring team members

Requirements

• Strong Python: async, threads, concurrent programming
• Experience with Python web frameworks (FastAPI preferred)
• Deep understanding of Docker and containerization
• Linux: systemd, journald, containers, confident CLI usage
• Networking: HTTP(S), SSH, WebSocket
• Strong understanding of client-server architecture and API design
• Databases and ACID fundamentals
• Cloud or on-premise infrastructure experience

• English for technical communication

   

   

  Nice to Have

• Bare-metal / Raspberry Pi / embedded Linux (firmware flashing, secure boot)
• Information security fundamentals
• Python deployment optimization
• Experience with ArduPilot or other autopilot stacks

• Prior tech lead or mentoring experience

   

   

  What we expect from the lead

• Structured approach to planning — not purely ad hoc
• Clear cross-team communication: status, blockers, priorities
• Autonomy in technical decisions within the team's scope
• Readiness to grow ownership as the company scales

Overview

We are looking for a Middle Computer Vision / Visual Navigation Engineer to improve and extend our GPS-independent navigation stack.

This is a hands-on R&D role: you work with real flight data, bring algorithms from experimentation to production, and collaborate closely with software and flight teams. Day to day you balance navigation and CV development, post-flight analysis, sensor calibration, and integration work. The role suits someone who is comfortable with classical geometry-based CV, modern feature pipelines, and turning prototypes into stable behavior on constrained hardware.

Responsibilities

Navigation & computer vision

• Improve existing visual-inertial navigation on real UAV platforms - both copters and planes
• Develop and refine algorithms for estimating position and orientation from camera and onboard sensor data
• Research and implement additional computer vision that extend the current system (e.g. use of satellite data, map or scene-based cues)
• Handle difficult real-world conditions: vibration, blur, changing scenery, sensor noise, and platform-specific setup differences

Flight analysis & tooling

• Analyze flight recordings to find issues, propose fixes, and verify improvements
• Extend automated post-flight analysis to reduce repetitive manual work
• Define clear quality metrics and use them to judge whether changes are ready for the deployment

Calibration

• Improve calibration procedures for cameras, IMU, and related sensors on new platforms
• Make calibration more repeatable and less dependent on one-off manual steps

Cross-team delivery

• Work closely with software and flight teams on testing, integration, and rollout
• Bring new methods into the production system with attention to performance and reliability
• Document limitations, risks, and operational guidance for the rest of the team

Required skills & experience

• 2+ years of practical experience in computer vision
• Solid fundamentals in image processing and geometric computer vision (camera models, epipolar geometry, robust estimation)
• Good Python for prototyping, analysis, and integration
• Practical production mindset
• English B2+ for documentation and technical discussion; Ukrainian for day-to-day team communication

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-sensor fusion / SLAM / EKF
• Sensor calibration experience on robotic or aerial platforms
• Map-based or semantic localization experience
• Deep learning applied to perception / matching
• UAV / robotics / aerospace experience

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

About us

DroneOps is a company creating innovative UAV-related products, focused on UAV autonomy and navigation, founded in 2023. We are a team of innovators and inventors who take on the duty to help the armed forces of Ukraine defend our country and democracy by providing reliable advanced systems that simplify their work, improve personnel safety, and enable more cost-effective and precise UAV mission execution.

Overview

We are looking for a Middle / Senior Computer Vision / Deep Learning Engineer to extend our onboard navigation capabilities with modern perception and learning-based methods.

This is a hands-on R&D role: you work from research and prototypes to production on edge hardware, collaborate with software, and flight teams, and help shape how new CV/DL features are built and shipped. The role suits someone who can follow state-of-the-art work, implement what fits our constraints, and care about real-world performance—not only offline benchmarks.

Responsibilities

Relocalization & navigation

• Design and develop satellite, map, and semantic navigation capabilities that improve the overall quality of our navigation
• Build and maintain pipelines for map and reference-data preparation before missions
• Extend the existing visual-inertial navigation stack with relocalization and map-based aiding features
• Develop training pipelines for these tasks (data preparation, training, evaluation, and iteration)
• Create utilities that make map preloading and mission setup convenient for operators and integrators
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Research & implementation

• Track relevant research and industry approaches; prototype and adopt methods where they clearly improve the product
• Reimplement or adapt algorithms when off-the-shelf solutions do not fit our data, hardware, or latency requirements
• Define evaluation metrics and acceptance criteria for new features before field and deployment rollouts
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Edge deployment & production

• Optimize models and inference for target onboard hardware
• Integrate new features into the production codebase with stable APIs, logging, and failure handling
• Take part in architecture decisions, code review, and team practices that keep production quality high as the stack grows
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Required skills & experience

• 3+ years of practical experience in computer vision and deep learning
• Strong Python; ability to write clear, maintainable code for experiments and production paths
• Experience with training and deploying deep learning models (PyTorch)
• Familiarity with model optimization for edge or embedded devices (pruning, quantization, ONNX/TensorRT-class tooling, or equivalent)
• Comfort working with geospatial or map-related data and preprocessing pipelines
• Practical production mindset: reproducible experiments, versioning, and validation on real data
• English B2+ for documentation and technical discussion; Ukrainian for day-to-day team communication
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Nice to have

• Experience with deep learning keypoint detection and matching approaches
• Comfortable with geometric computer vision (camera models, epipolar geometry, robust estimation)
• Multi-sensor fusion / SLAM / EKF background
• UAV, robotics, or aerospace field experience
• Experience with satellite or aerial imagery, semantic segmentation, or visual place recognition
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What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

About us

DroneOps is a company creating innovative UAV-related products, focused on UAV autonomy and navigation, founded in 2023. We are a team of innovators and inventors who take on the duty to help the armed forces of Ukraine defend our country and democracy by providing reliable advanced systems that simplify their work, improve personnel safety, and enable more cost-effective and precise UAV mission execution.

Overview

We are looking for a Junior / Middle Software Engineer to strengthen our product software team.

This is a hands-on role on onboard navigation product software: you support and extend the system, build and improve tooling, and help keep releases reliable through simulation, replay, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.

The role suits someone who likes understanding how complex software behaves end to end, writes clear code and tests, and wants to work on real UAV systems with experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

System development

• Implement and maintain parts of the onboard product software and supporting services
• Develop internal tools, automation, and utilities used across development and release workflows
• Integrate new features into the production codebase with stable behavior, logging, and configuration

Product software support & verification

• Support, test, and debug components of the onboard navigation product software
• Verify algorithm and integration changes before release: unit tests, simulation scenarios, replay workflows, and hardware-in-the-loop checks
• Investigate failures from CI, field logs, and developer reports; reproduce issues and help resolving them
• Extend test coverage and internal utilities where routine checks can be automated

Engineering quality & delivery

• Improve and maintain CI/CD for the product codebase (builds, Docker images, automated test pipelines, release checks)
• Optimize hot paths and tooling where profiling shows clear wins
• Follow team code standards, participate in code review, and help keep the codebase maintainable

Simulation & replay tooling

• Run and maintain simulation and replay-based validation (software-in-the-loop, logged flight replay, autopilot estimator replay)
• Help expand test scenarios and regression checks as the product and integration surface grow
• Work with flight and navigation teams to turn real incidents into repeatable test cases
   

Required skills & experience

• 1+ years of professional software development experience, or strong equivalent from internships, pet projects, or open source with evidence of shipped work
• Solid Python: reading & extending existing codebases, writing tests, debugging
• Experience with multi-threading, multi-processing, or async applications
• Comfort with Linux as a daily development environment
• Experience with Git and collaborative workflows
• Basic understanding of automated testing (pytest or similar) and why regressions matter in production systems
• Ability to read logs, configs, and stack traces and communicate findings clearly to the team
• Docker for local and CI environments
• GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD
• English B2+ for documentation and technical discussion; Ukrainian for day-to-day team communication

Nice to have

• YAML-driven configuration (e.g. Hydra-style setups)
• MAVLink, drone autopilots, or robotics middleware
• Simulation experience (SITL, game-engine or physics simulators, recorded-data replay)
• HDF5 or other structured telemetry / time-series data
• C++ or willingness to work alongside C++ components when replay or autopilot tooling requires it
• Interest in embedded or resource-constrained targets

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

We are a startup developing alternative navigation systems for UAVs, and we are looking for a Middle QA Engineer to take ownership of the testing process and speed up release cycles and pre-flight product preparation.

Tech skills:

• 2+ years as a QA Engineer
• Strong Linux terminal usage
• Python, Bash scripting
• Git, Docker (usage level)
• Test automation experience
• Experience in writing technical documentation
• Upper-intermediate English or higher
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Nice to have:

• Experience with UAVs or any other hardware
• MAVLink, ArduPilot
• CI/CD experience

• Driver’s license and experience driving a van (Category B)

   

What you will do:

• Prepare the product for flight tests (assembly, setup, checklist verification)
• Perform functional tests on drones with communication via MAVLink
• Analyze test results and create high-quality bug reports
• Independently fix minor bugs
• Write and maintain technical documentation and user manuals
• Collaborate closely with the development team and work in fast-paced agile-based iterations

• Travel to test sites for flight testing

   

What we offer:

• On-site work with access to hardware and lab facilities
• Opportunity to directly influence the product and processes
• Startup culture valuing speed, involvement, and initiative
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and real-world flight tests
• Reservation of employees from mobilisation

Ми — компанія, що створює інноваційні продукти у сфері безпілотних авіаційних систем, зосереджена на автономності та навігації БпЛА. Ми — команда науковців та інженерів, інноваторів та винахідників, які взяли на себе обов'язок допомагати Збройним Силам України захищати нашу країну та демократію, надаючи надійні передові системи, що спрощують роботу особового складу, підвищують безпеку персоналу та забезпечують більш раціональне й точне виконання місій БпЛА.

Що ти будеш робити:

• Збирати електронні модулі відповідно до технологічних карт
• Виконувати базову пайку — з’єднання проводів, конекторів
• Прошивати ПЗ модулів на виробничому стенді за інструкцією
• Проводити калібровку та верифікацію модулів через програмний інтерфейс та апаратне забезпечення
• Наклеювати маркування, сканувати штрих-коди, фіксувати результати

Що нас зацікавить:

• Базові навички паяння або готовність навчитись
• Впевнені навики користувача ПК
• Акуратність і уважність до деталей
• Здатність чітко слідувати інструкціям
• Здатність до самостійного пошуку та вирішення проблем

Буде плюсом:

• Досвід QA
• Вища технічна освіта
• Будь-який досвід з БПЛА
• Навички роботи з терміналом (Linux)

Ми пропонуємо:

• Конкурентна заробітна плата
• Бронювання від мобілізації
• Робота в офісі з доступом до обладнання та лабораторних потужностей
• Офіс у Києві з укриттям, генератором та Starlink
• Вплив на покращення обороноздатності країни
• 21 день відпустки + державні свята, лікарняні

Ми — компанія, що створює інноваційні продукти у сфері безпілотних авіаційних систем, зосереджена на автономності та навігації БпЛА. Ми — команда науковців та інженерів, інноваторів та винахідників, які взяли на себе обов'язок допомагати Збройним Силам України захищати нашу країну та демократію, надаючи надійні передові системи, що спрощують роботу особового складу, підвищують безпеку персоналу та забезпечують більш раціональне й точне виконання місій БпЛА.

Що ти будеш робити:

• Монтувати наші вироби на тестові БПЛА
• Проектувати різноманітну електроніку під керівництвом старших колег
• Розробляти друковані плати  під керівництвом старших колег
• Збирати, налагоджувати і калібрувати запроектовану електроніку
• Програмувати вбудовану електроніку (тут прості задачі)
• Писати документацію
• Вести закупівлі
• Багато вчитись новому і розвиватися професійно.

Кого ми шукаємо:

• Хороша фізико-математична база
• Досвід в розробці вбудованої електроніки - університетські проекти цілком ок
• Практичні навички роботи з мультиметром, осцилографом, блоком живлення
• Вміння паяти
• Досвід з KiCad, Altium Designer, Eagle або іншими CAD для проектування друкованих плат
• Акуратність і уважність до деталей
• Здатність чітко слідувати інструкціям

Буде дуже великим плюсом:

• Знання 3д дизайну і 3д друку
• Будь-який досвід з БПЛА
• Навички роботи з терміналом (Linux)

Ми пропонуємо:

• Конкурентна заробітна плата
• Бронювання від мобілізації
• Робота в офісі з доступом до обладнання та лабораторних потужностей
• Офіс у Києві з укриттям, генератором та Starlink
• Вплив на покращення обороноздатності країни
• 21 день відпустки + державні свята, лікарняні

Overview

We are looking for a UAV Technician to join the flight team responsible for testing our flagship R&D product — a GPS-denied alternative navigation system. This role is focused on the technical side of UAV operations — assembly, configuration, maintenance, diagnostics, and repair of multirotor / fixed-wing airframes and their supporting equipment.

You will keep the team’s fleet in top shape and make sure every flight starts from a known-good aircraft. Piloting skills are welcome and useful, but they are not a hard requirement — your value here is in the hardware.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, configure, and bring up multirotor UAVs (frames, motors, ESCs, FCs, sensors, RC/telemetry, power) and fixed-wings
• Perform pre-flight technical checks and prepare aircraft for field campaigns
• Maintain, service, and repair airframes and supporting equipment (batteries, ground stations, antennas, RC equipment)
• Configure and tune Ardupilot-based autopilots (parameters, failsafes, sensor calibration)
• Diagnose hardware and configuration issues; perform root-cause analysis on failures
• Support flight tests on-site: be the technical hands during campaigns
• Keep equipment inventory, spare parts, and maintenance records in order
• Support engineers during bring-up and integration of new platforms and components

Requirements

Must-have

• Solid hands-on experience assembling, configuring, and repairing multirotor UAVs and fixed-wings
• Deep understanding of UAV core components (motors, ESCs, FCs, sensors, RC/telemetry links, power systems)
• Working knowledge of Ardupilot: parameters, calibration, failsafes, basic log analysis
• Confident soldering and basic electronics troubleshooting skills
• Ability to read wiring diagrams and basic schematics
• Methodical, careful approach to maintenance, documentation, and pre-flight checks

Nice to have

• Real flight experience on multirotor UAVs (piloting skills are a strong plus, not a must)
• Experience with mission-planning software (Mission Planner, QGroundControl)
• Experience with fixed-wing UAVs
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education
• Experience with 3D printing or basic mechanical fabrication
• Combat experience
• English at B1 level or higher

Personal qualities

• Responsibility and ownership over the equipment you touch
• Strong attention to detail — “good enough” is not good enough for a flying aircraft
• Methodical and process-oriented
• Communication skills and ability to work in a team
• Initiative — proposes improvements instead of waiting for instructions

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• On-site work with access to hardware and lab facilities
• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves