LAT Aerospace

Electronic Design Engineer – Autopilot & Edge Perception Hardware

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At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter — developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LAT’s autonomy architecture.\n\nWe’re hiring two Electronic Design Engineers who will design the core electronics that run LAT’s autonomy stack:\n\n1. Autopilot & flight-control hardware\n\n2. Edge perception compute modules for real-time vision + sensor fusion\n\nThis team owns the full lifecycle — architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, bring-up, testing, and integration on real UAV platforms.\n\n**What you’ll do**\n\n* Design next-generation autopilot hardware, including sensor interfaces, MCU/SoC architectures, power conditioning, redundancy, and safety-critical pathways.\n\n* Develop edge perception compute hardware for onboard SLAM, vision, and multi-sensor fusion — balancing compute, thermal, and form-factor constraints.\n\n* Create schematics, PCB layouts (4–12 layer) and review boards for manufacturability, noise immunity, and aerospace reliability.\n\n* Select and integrate IMUs, compasses, barometers, GNSS modules, high-speed interfaces, and sensor conditioning circuits.\n\n* Design high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and low-noise analog circuits for flight and perception systems.\n\n* Own bring-up, debugging, and validation of avionics and compute boards using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and test jigs.\n\n* Work closely with the Embedded Software, GNC, Perception, and Autonomy teams to ensure hardware supports real-time compute, sensor fusion, and control requirements.\n\n* Ensure thermal, EMI/EMC, vibration, and power integrity compliance for UAV integration.\n\n* Support manufacturing, testing, and reliability qualification for flight-ready hardware.\n\n**What we're looking for**\n\n* Strong experience in electronic circuit design, mixed-signal systems, and PCB development.\n\n* Comfortable with MCUs, SoCs, FPGAs, sensor interfaces, and high-speed digital design.\n\n* Hands-on experience with Altium, KiCad, or similar EDA tools.\n\n* Deep understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, and thermal constraints.\n\n* Experience designing robust boards for robotics, drones, automotive, aerospace, or industrial systems.\n\n* Ability to design and debug power supplies, DC-DC converters, regulators, and battery interfaces.\n\n* Strong hardware bring-up skills using lab equipment.\n\n* Ability to rigorously document designs and create repeatable hardware workflows.\n\n**Why LAT?**\n\n* Core-team role building the autonomy brain of India’s most ambitious aerospace startup.\n\n* Ownership, speed, and the opportunity to define a new class of systems from scratch.