Droneops

DroneOps specialises in advanced navigational systems for UAV operations. Our focus is on developing robust solutions that enhance UAV autonomy and reliability, facilitating operations in environments where traditional GPS may be compromised. Our technology is designed to be integrated across a range of UAV platforms, delivering precision, resilience and cost-effective enhancements to existing hardware.

We are looking for an embedded software engineer to own the platform layer of our onboard computing: the Linux images our navigation software ships on, the provisioning and secure boot chain that protects it in the field, and the tooling that turns a bare Raspberry Pi Compute Module into a flight-ready device. Our team is small and cross-functional. You will work close to the hardware and close to the people writing the algorithms that run on it, with real ownership of the platform from the first week.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• 3+ years of commercial experience with embedded Linux (for the Senior level; from 2 years for Middle)

• Strong Linux internals: boot flow, initramfs, systemd, journald, udev, device tree and overlays, kernel modules

• Hands-on experience with Raspberry Pi as a production platform, not only as a dev board — Compute Module 4 / 5, EEPROM and bootloader configuration, rpiboot / usbboot

• Building custom OS images: pi-gen, rpi-image-gen, or an equivalent stack (Yocto, Buildroot, debootstrap)

• Secure boot in practice: signed boot images, key management, OTP-fused key hashes, encrypted or verified rootfs (dm-crypt / LUKS, dm-verity)

• Experience with device provisioning pipelines: key injection, per-device identity, factory-side automation

• Flashing and mass-provisioning workflows: reproducible builds, image verification, recovery from a bricked device

• Confident CLI, bash and Python scripting for build and provisioning automation

• Cross-compilation and toolchain fundamentals (ARM64)

• Git and CI-driven builds (GitHub Actions)

• Reading schematics and datasheets well enough to talk to hardware engineers

• At least Intermediate English (reading docs, written async communication)

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• A/B (dual-slot) update schemes and OTA frameworks: RAUC, Mender, SWUpdate

• U-Boot, custom kernel configuration and patching, PREEMPT_RT

• Peripheral bring-up: UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO, CSI cameras, PPS/GNSS receivers

• ArduPilot, PX4, MAVLink or another autopilot stack

• Other SoM platforms: NVIDIA Jetson, i.MX, Rockchip

• Hardware-accelerated video and computer vision pipelines on ARM (V4L2, GStreamer, VPU/GPU offload)

• Information security fundamentals: PKI, HSM or KMS-backed signing, secrets handling, threat modelling for physically accessible devices

• Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for image build pipelines

• Docker for reproducible build environments

• Power management and thermal constraints on airborne platforms

• Experience with restricted or air-gapped development environments

YOUR TASKS MAY INCLUDE

• Designing and maintaining the Raspberry Pi OS images our navigation software runs on — minimal, reproducible, versioned

• Building and operating the secure boot and provisioning chain: signing keys, OTP key programming, encrypted rootfs, factory provisioning stations

• Automating image build, signing and flashing in CI, so a release is an artifact rather than a manual procedure

• Bringing up new hardware revisions and peripherals together with the hardware team

• Implementing and testing a safe field update mechanism, including rollback

• Debugging boot, driver and performance issues on real devices — serial console, ftrace, perf, kernel logs

• Hardening the platform: attack surface reduction, secrets storage, protecting IP on a device that can be physically captured

• Writing the technical documentation and runbooks for the platform you own

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary

• Reservation from mobilization

• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink

• Possibility of hybrid work format

• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities

• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

About the role

We're looking for a middle DevOps / SysOps engineer to take care of the infrastructure our product runs on: on-prem virtualization, network and VPN connectivity between sites, and the delivery pipelines on top of it. The team is small, so you get real ownership from the start — and room to grow into your own areas of responsibility.

Responsibilities

* Operate and develop on-prem virtualization: VMware ESXi + vCenter (clusters, resource pools, storage, patching and version upgrades)

* Administer network infrastructure: MikroTik, Cisco, pfSense — VLANs, routing, NAT, firewall policies

* Build and maintain WireGuard site-to-site and client VPN topologies between offices, labs and cloud

* Maintain Ubuntu servers: systemd, journald, configuration management, hardening, monitoring and alerting

* Support Docker-based build and deployment workflows

* Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

* Manage S3-compatible object storage for backups and build artifacts

* Own backup and restore procedures, including regular recovery testing

* Write technical documentation and runbooks for what you build

* Participate in incident response and on-call rotation

Requirements

* 2+ years of commercial experience in DevOps / system administration / infrastructure

* Production experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter

* Hands-on experience with at least two of: MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco, pfSense / OPNsense

* Networking fundamentals: L2/L3, VLAN, static and dynamic routing, NAT, firewall policies, DNS, DHCP, TLS, SSH

* WireGuard (or IPsec / OpenVPN): configuring tunnels and routing between sites, troubleshooting asymmetric routing

* Docker and Docker Compose: builds, registries, networking, volumes

* CI/CD with GitHub Actions (or GitLab CI with readiness to move to GHA)

* Linux (Ubuntu): confident CLI, systemd, journald, bash scripting

* Basic experience with S3-compatible storage or a public cloud provider (AWS / Azure / GCP / Hetzner)

* Monitoring and logging basics: Zabbix, Prometheus + Grafana, or ELK

* English for technical communication (reading docs, written async communication)

Nice to have

* Cisco FTD / FMC, Cisco ISE (802.1X, NAC, posture)

* Certifications: VCP-DCV, CCNA / CCNP Security, MTCNA / MTCRE / MTCINE, LFCS / RHCSA, AWS SAA

* Other VMware products: vSAN, NSX, Horizon (VDI), VCF, Site Recovery Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication

* Automation and IaC: Ansible, Terraform, Python

* Information security fundamentals: PKI, secrets management, hardening baselines (CIS), secure boot

* Bare-metal / Raspberry Pi / embedded Linux

* Experience with isolated or air-gapped environments

What we offer

* Competitive salary

* Reservation from mobilization

* Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink

* Possibility of hybrid work format

* 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 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

About the role

We're looking for a middle software engineer to join a small team building a product management ecosystem in the defense sector. You'll work on internal tooling, deployment workflows, and backend services, with room to grow into ownership of your own areas.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal deployment and product management tooling
• Build backend services and APIs in Python
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Work with Docker-based build and deployment workflows
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain technical quality
• Write technical documentation for the features you build

Requirements

• 2+ years of commercial Python experience: async, threads, concurrent programming
• Experience with Python web frameworks (FastAPI preferred)
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerization
• Linux: systemd, journald, containers, confident CLI usage
• Networking fundamentals: HTTP(S), SSH, WebSocket
• Understanding of client-server architecture and API design
• Databases and ACID fundamentals
• English for technical communication (reading docs, written async communication)

Nice to have

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

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink
• Possibility of hybrid work format
• Impact on improving our country's defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves

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