UAS Operations Engineer

UAS Operations Engineer

Location:

Syracuse, NY

Employment Type:

Full Time

If you’re a UAS operator tired of being just a pilot, or an engineer who doesn’t want to stay behind a desk, this role is built for you. You’ll plan and fly a complex BVLOS mission, debug a telemetry pipeline, and walk a customer through their first installation in a single week.

We’re a small, engineering-led company building the safety, orchestration, and operational infrastructure that makes BVLOS drone operations possible  products manage real‑time risk, compliance, and coordination across drones, operators, and missions in public safety, infrastructure, logistics, and defense. With the FAA’s final BVLOS regulations around the corner, we’re at the front of that wave.

A small team, real ownership, and direct access to the executives setting strategy. We expect candor, precision, and follow‑through, and we give the same in return. The work is technically demanding, federally watched, and customers rely on our products. If you want a role that shapes national airspace evolution, this is it.

You’re a sharp UAS operator, Part 107 certified, comfortable in the FAA waiver environment, and experienced flying complex missions including BVLOS. You also bring engineering and data analysis skills: you can write Python to build tooling, dig into mission data, own technical problems end‑to‑end, and take ownership of unfamiliar technical areas.

• UAS mission planning and execution, including operations under Part 107 waivers (BVLOS, night, operations over people)
• Resilien
  
  X’s drone fleet: platforms, payloads, maintenance scheduling, firmware, deployments, and readiness
• Customer installations, onboarding, training, and ongoing technical support
• UAS‑based solution design: translating customer requirements into platform and payload selection, concepts of operations, and mission plans
• Mission data analysis and delivery of insights or finished products to customers
• FAA waiver applications, safety cases, COAs, and operational documentation, authored directly and not just managed
• Python‑based tooling for telemetry, data analysis, automation, and mission workflows
• Troubleshooting across software, hardware, networking, telemetry, and integration during demos and field events
• Requirements development, test planning, documentation, and customer‑facing technical demonstrations
• Currency on evolving FAA rule making, Remote , and emerging BVLOS frameworks

• Active FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate
• 5+ years of hands‑on UAS operational experience, including missions under Part 107 waivers (BVLOS in particular)
• Working knowledge of the FAA regulatory environment, including the waiver and exemption process
• Demonstrated experience designing UAS‑based solutions, including selecting platforms, payloads, and concepts of operations to meet mission requirements
• Comfort with airspace classifications, sectional charts, and LAANC
• Working Python skills for data analysis, scripting, and tooling
• Ability to debug complex systems under pressure across software, hardware, and field operations
• Proven ability to take technical ownership of systems outside your initial comfort zone

• B.S. in Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related technical field
• Direct experience authoring Part 107 waiver applications (BVLOS, OOP, night)
• Experience with enterprise UAS platforms (DJI, Skydio, Blue UAS, or similar)
• Familiarity with mission planning and ground control software (QGround
  
  Control, Mission Planner, DJI Pilot / Flight Hub, Skydio, Auterion, etc.)
• Working knowledge of payload options (LiDAR, multispectral, thermal, RGB, comms relays) and how to match them to mission requirements
• Experience with downstream data workflows (photogrammetry, GIS, analytics pipelines)
• Experience with pandas, Num Py, and visualization libraries; comfort with Linux, Docker, and APIs
• Familiarity with PX4, Ardu Pilot, MAVLink, MAVProxy, or pymavlink for telemetry and mission tooling
• Familiarity with Remote  and relevant standards bodies (ASTM, RTCA)
• Hands‑on ML/AI experience applied to drone‑derived…