Datapower Consultant

Position: Guidance & Navigation Engineer

Experience: 1–3 Years

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Guidance and Navigation Engineer to join our autonomy and avionics team. The role involves developing, implementing, and validating state estimation, navigation, and guidance algorithms for autonomous UAVs operating in both GNSS-available and GNSS-denied environments.

The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation in estimation theory, sensor fusion, and navigation algorithms, along with hands-on experience in implementing these algorithms on embedded or real-time systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimise navigation and guidance algorithms for UAVs.
• Develop state estimation algorithms using IMU, GNSS, magnetometer, barometer, cameras, LiDAR, radar, and other onboard sensors.
• Design and implement estimation filters such as: EKF, UKF, Point-mass Filter
• Develop sensor fusion algorithms for robust localisation under degraded or denied GNSS conditions.
• Work on inertial navigation, dead reckoning, visual-inertial odometry (VIO), visual odometry (VO), and multi-sensor navigation systems.
• Develop guidance algorithms for waypoint navigation, path following, trajectory generation, and autonomous mission execution.
• Perform simulation, algorithm validation, and performance analysis using MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or C++.
• Analyse flight logs and sensor data to improve navigation accuracy and system robustness.
• Integrate navigation software with autopilots, embedded processors, and avionics systems.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), and field flight testing.
• Work closely with perception, controls, embedded software, and systems engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
• 1–3 years of experience in navigation, estimation, robotics, autonomous systems, or UAV development.
• Strong understanding of: Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, Estimation Theory, Kinematics, Coordinate Systems, Control Systems,
• Experience developing estimation filters, especially EKF or UKF.
• Good understanding of IMU error modelling and inertial navigation.
• Experience with Camera, IMU Calibration and Synchronisation
• Experience with multi-sensor fusion.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink for algorithm development and validation.
• Familiarity with Linux development environments.
• Experience with Git version control.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), Visual Odometry (VO), or SLAM with loop closure techniques
• Knowledge of factor graph optimisation (GTSAM, Ceres Solver, g2o, etc.).
• Experience with ROS/ROS2.
• Familiarity with PX4 or ArduPilot.
• Experience working with embedded Linux or ARM-based processors.
• Understanding of UAV flight dynamics and autopilot architectures.
• Experience with flight data analysis and debugging.
• Exposure to airborne software development processes and coding standards (e.g., MISRA C++).

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently on challenging technical problems.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Passion for robotics, autonomous systems, and aerospace technologies.
• Willingness to participate in field trials and flight testing.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge UAV autonomy technologies from algorithm development through real-world flight validation.

Location: Bengaluru, Kadugodi

Experience: 4-6 years

About company:

Client is a Germany-headquarted IT consulting and service organization. With over 25 years of expertise and global presence, we are committed to customer excellence and focused in addressing niche areas of product engineering, process consulting and software development in automotive, railways, production automation, data management and business IT domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop or enhance features to meet industry standards, safety regulations, and project specifications.
• Collaborate with Business stakeholders to understand Business Requirements
• Work closely with hardware engineers, QA, and Scrum Master to integrate software solutions into embedded systems.
• Identify Problems and resolve technical issues within embedded systems, making critical decisions on system architecture and software design.
• Strive towards Improving Processes, system performance, optimize code and innovate in software design.
• Work closely with vendors to design and implement edge AI solutions

Requirements:

• Must have done B.Tech/B.E preferably in ECE stream
• Must have Proficiency in Python/C/C++, Go Lang, Scripting in Bash
• Must have Strong Fundamentals on Embedded Development Life cycle
• Must have Strong knowledge on Embedded Linux, Unix/Linux commands, RTOS and SQL
• Sound knowledge of CAN/J1939 protocol, Sensor Data Processing and Telemetry
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Agile/Scrum methodology
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize work effectively
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of ADAS, Driver Monitoring Systems
• Experience with embedded video coupled with edge AI

7th Unit is building a wheeled upper-body humanoid robot for industrial deployment in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This is a founding role, you own the perception architecture from day one.

What you'll do

• Build and own the full perception stack for v1 — object detection, depth estimation, workspace understanding
• Integrate perception with manipulation and motion planning systems
• Deploy and optimize perception pipelines on edge hardware (Jetson Orin or equivalent)
• Work directly on the physical robot — debugging real hardware, not simulations
• Develop the data pipeline for continuous improvement of perception performance

What we need

• 3+ years building perception systems for real robotic platforms — not research only
• Strong foundation in computer vision, 3D data processing, and sensor fusion
• Proficiency in Python and C++, hands-on experience with ROS2
• Experience deploying perception on edge compute hardware
• You have debugged a perception system on a physical robot under real operating conditions

Structure

• Position starts Q3 2026
• Equity negotiated directly, founding engineer package
• Remote during pre-build phase. In-person required from prototype assembly onward

Candidate should have 6-9 years of experience in IoT embedded systems. He/ She should be

passionate, tech savvy, academically sound, have interest in embedded devices and

technologies.

Experience:

• Exposure to Microcontroller/Microprocessor Architecture /Family e.g. ARM Cortex,

Microchip, Xtensa ESP32, TI CC32XX, STM32

• Knowledge of Bare metal and any RTOS (Free RTOS, uC OS, EmbOSs, VxWorks, QNX)

• Knowledge of Microcontroller peripherals and low level drivers e.g. ADC, DAC, I2C, SPI,

UART, CAN, RS485, DMA, Ethernet, Display

• Knowledge of networking concepts like OSI layers, embedded TCP/IP stacks and common

IP protocols

• Knowledge of RF protocols WIFI, Bluetooth/BLE, IoT Cellular

• Knowledge of IoT communication protocols MQTT, COAP, AMQP

• Knowledge of Build toolchains and framework such as IAR, GCC, Keil, Mplab

• DFMA and DFMEA, Design release process

• Coding standards, guidelines and compliance tools

• Version control and repositories using git tools

• Software quality assurance and automated testing tools Experience / Skills Embedded software design cycle

• Documenting Software Design (flow charts, state diagram, logic design, analysis, implementation, debugging and testing etc)

• Good hands-on programming in Embedded C, C++.

• Programming in scripting languages such as batch, shell, python is a plus.

• Experience with AWS/Google cloud for device connectivity. Exposure to IoT cloud services. e.g. AWS IoT

• Software and Hardware integration testing and troubleshooting

• Protocol debugging using protocol analyzer.

• Understanding of Schematic/ Hardware design around microcontrollers like ST, TI, Atmel, Microchip, ARM core

1. Coding and Debugging in C language.
2. Knowledge on ARM based architectures of 8/16/32 Microcontrollers,UART, ADC, DAC,Ethernet, SPI,CAN,I2C and I2S.
3. FPGA RTL coding and Simulation using Verilog/VHDL

Qualification - BE/B.Tech (ECE), M.Sc.(Electronics)

Only Defense and Aerospace, Electronics, Semi-Conductors,

(No Automative industry)

AVANTEL LIMITED is a technology driven public limited company with focus on developing innovative wireless communication products and solutions to meet unique requirements of defense, railways, and telecom sectors. The organization is certified against AS 9100D and ISO 9001:2015 standards for Quality Management System. For more details visit www.avantel.in.

• Hands-on embedded C skills (mandatory)
• Experience with any microcontrollers MCU (mandatory) – Renesas/ Infineon/ Cypress/ ST-Micro /TI / Microchip
• Experience with any of peripherals & communication protocols usage in application development (mandatory) – UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, CAN, USB, ADC, DAC, EEPROM, Flash memory
• Experience with any RTOS – FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS, ThreadX
• Experience with any networking &  connectivity modules (preferred & added advantage) – Ethernet, WiFi, BLE, MQTT, COAP

Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Core PHP, CodeIgniter, Yii, Laravel.

- Strong knowledge of open source platforms like WordPress

- Strong Knowledge in Mysql Database. Analyze, Create, and Normalize databases independently.

- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP

- Understanding of MVC design patterns

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming

- Strong in Javascript, Ajax, Jquery.

- Knowledge of Apache Server and Linux.

- Knowledge of XML, HTML, HTML5, XHTML, CSS

- Should be able to handle the project independently.

- Can understand and work on running projects.

- Can be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

- Optimization and performance

Responsibilities and Duties

Working on the live project and client communication