Avionics Lead (2-week contract, NYC area, on-site)
Avionics Lead (2-week contract, NYC area, on-site) at Buoyant Aero — New York, NY, US
- Company: Buoyant Aero
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Employment type: CONTRACTOR
- Salary: USD 20–50 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re looking for a hands-on RC aircraft builder/pilot to help us get a custom shaped blimp inflatable (LTA + tilt-rotor VTOL) flying outdoors.
This is a 2-4 week, full-time, on-site contract focused on real flight and simulation. You’ll be working directly on a non-standard aircraft with custom control mixing, thrust vectoring, and field testing.
What you’ll be doing
ArduPilot Plane on Pixhawk Cube Orange
Custom mixer logic, and programming (tilt rotors, nonstandard geometry)
Full avionics integration (GPS, telemetry, power, ESCs, servos)
Failsafes (RC/GPS/telemetry loss, etc.)
Hands-on wiring (crimping, soldering, looms)
Managing physics simulations to tune with hardware in the loop
Outdoor flight testing + piloting
You should have
Built, wired, programmed, and flown your own RC aircraft
Strong ArduPilot / Pixhawk experience
Experience with unusual configs (VTOL, vectored thrust, etc.)
Comfort debugging hardware + control issues in the field
To apply
Send links/photos of 3+ aircraft you’ve personally built and flown