Flight Operations Engineer/UAV Pilot (UAV Robotics/Mechatronics)

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Opening: WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP Details Preferred starting date: ASAP Weekly availability: Full-time (5 days/week) Location: Delft, the Netherlands About the company Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up with big ambitions at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. Currently, we are developing software for advanced onboard UAV situational awareness in military applications. Using low-cost and widely available sensors and compute, our solutions are built for scalability. From there, we plan to develop a line-up of interconnected solutions to safeguard European safety. Our team consists of engineers who are passionate about the technology and solutions they develop. The only time most of us are not thinking about the technology is when we are asleep, and sometimes even then. Our team members come from different backgrounds such as Aerospace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Robotics, and Computer Graphics. Our office is located in the Aerospace Innovation Hub, a start-up hub on the TU Delft campus in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. We work closely with top-tier partners, ranging from government agencies and prime contractors to academic research institutes and other start-ups. Our projects span from large tender orders in collaboration with partners to low-TRL research with government agencies. Whether through formal R&D programs or rapid prototyping tracks, we operate at the intersection of innovation and deployment. Your role If you are the kind of person who enjoys being on the sticks, knows how to prepare a platform for flight, and also can't resist opening up the autonomy stack to see why it's fighting the flight controller, this role is designed for you. We are looking for a Flight Operations Engineer/UAV Pilot who is first and foremost excited about piloting and operating UAV platforms , and who also wants to be the bridge between our autonomy software and the hardware it flies on. This role is not limited to FPV systems, although FPV experience is highly valued. You will fly and build across multiple platform types, including multirotors such as the Holybro X650 and fixed-wing aircraft . Being able to fly is a requirement, not a nice-to-have. Your main responsibility is to make sure our UAV platforms are flight-ready at all times , and to be the person who takes them up. That means flyin…