Senior UAV Systems Engineer

Location: Ukraine

Department: Delivery Unit (I.Kozakevych)

N-iX is a global software development service company that helps businesses across the globe create next-generation software products. Founded in 2002, we unite 2,400+ tech-savvy professionals across 40+ countries, working on impactful projects for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise spans cloud, data, AI/ML, embedded software, IoT, and more, driving digital transformation across finance, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and other industries.

Within our multidisciplinary engineering environment, we work on advanced autonomous and unmanned systems. Our R&D scope spans multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL and lighter-than-air platforms, with a focus on guidance, navigation, control, perception and sensor integration. Engineers work alongside specialists in electronics, mechanics, embedded software, mathematics, CV/AI and signal processing to take solutions from modeling and simulation through integration and physical validation.

Responsibilities:

• Design and integrate advanced guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems for different flight dynamics
• Develop and validate control algorithms, state estimation, flight models and autonomous behaviors
• Select and integrate flight controllers, radar, cameras, GNSS/INS, other sensors and onboard computing
• Integrate CV/AI perception, tracking, localization, radar/DSP and multi-sensor fusion
• Build simulation and emulation environments; perform SIL/HIL, hardware integration and field validation
• Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, embedded, CV/AI, mathematics and signal-processing specialists.

Technical Skills:

• Programming: Python, Linux; C/C++ as required.Control & GNC: flight dynamics, PID/LQR/MPC, feedback control, trajectory planning, EKF/UKF, GNSS/INS
• UAV platforms: PX4 or ArduPilot, MAVLink/MAVSDK; flight-controller and companion-computer integration
• Sensors & signals: IMU, radar, GNSS, LiDAR, cameras, DSP, filtering and sensor fusion
• Interfaces: CAN, UART, SPI, I²C, Ethernet, telemetry and diagnostics.

Additional Advantages:

• SLAM, VIO, RTK GNSS, radar principles (FMCW/Doppler), robust or adaptive control
• NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA/TensorRT, embedded Linux/RTOS; Docker, CI/CD and cloud services
• Perception & AI: OpenCV, object detection/tracking, PyTorch or TensorFlow, ONNX
• Hands-on commissioning, tuning and flight testing of real unmanned platforms
• Simulation: ROS 2, Gazebo or MATLAB/Simulink, SIL/SITL/HIL testing.

What We Expect:

• 4+ years in UAV, aerospace, embedded software or autonomous systems
• Strong system-level understanding and practical software/hardware integration experience
• Ability to evaluate alternatives, coordinate domain specialists and take solutions from concept to validated prototype
• Independent R&D thinking, structured troubleshooting and technical English.