Hydro Drone Architect

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Hydro Drone Architect to design and architect advanced autonomous drone systems for water-based, marine, and hydro-environment applications. The role will focus on autonomous navigation, robotics, sensing, AI, communication, and control systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architecture for water-based autonomous drone systems.
• Develop solutions for navigation, positioning, control, sensing, and autonomous operations.
• Integrate AI/ML, computer vision, LiDAR, sonar, GPS/GNSS, IMU, cameras, and environmental sensors.
• Design communication and telemetry architecture for remote and autonomous operations.
• Develop integration between flight/vehicle controllers, robotics software, edge computing, and cloud platforms.
• Architect real-time data collection, processing, analytics, and monitoring systems.
• Design fail-safe mechanisms, redundancy, geofencing, and autonomous recovery capabilities.
• Collaborate with robotics, embedded, AI/ML, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams.
• Lead technical architecture, proof-of-concepts, system integration, testing, and deployment.

Required Skills

• 10+ years in robotics, autonomous systems, drone/UAV/USV architecture, or related engineering.
• Strong experience with autonomous robotics and control systems.
• Expertise in ROS/ROS2, Python, C/C++, and real-time systems.
• Experience with GPS/GNSS, IMU, LiDAR, sonar, computer vision, and sensor fusion.
• Strong understanding of navigation, localization, path planning, and obstacle avoidance.
• Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers, and robotics communication protocols.
• Knowledge of AI/ML and computer vision for autonomous operations.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, edge computing, IoT, telemetry, and data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system safety, reliability, cybersecurity, and fault tolerance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with marine robotics, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), underwater drones (AUVs), or hydrographic surveying.
• Experience with sonar, bathymetric mapping, water-quality sensors, and marine navigation.
• Knowledge of MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, DDS, CAN, MQTT, or similar protocols.
• Experience with digital twins, simulation, Gazebo, or NVIDIA Isaac.
• Experience designing systems for harsh environmental conditions.