Flight Testing Engineer Senior at IZI Ventures Pvt Ltd · Bhopal · 2 - 6 years · ₹5L - ₹7L / yr · Profitable · Posted 30 Jun 2026

Position Title: Flight Integration & Testing Engineer
Years of Experience: 2+ year
Work Model: Work From Office
Location: Bhopal
About Us: At IZI, we are revolutionizing the consumer drone and gadget market in India. Our
mission is to provide premium features without the premium price tag, empowering users to turn
everyday moments into extraordinary adventures. We are a team of trailblazers looking for
energetic individuals to help us soar to new horizons.
(Website: https://www.izicart.com/)
What are we looking for: We are looking for a Flight Integration & Testing Engineer to support
UAV integration, testing, troubleshooting, and field validation activities. The role involves working
closely with R&D, electronics, embedded, and operations teams to ensure successful drone
integration, mission readiness, and flight performance.
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform UAV flight integration, calibration, and system testing
• Conduct field testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of drones
• Integrate flight controllers, telemetry systems, payloads, and communication modules
• Support autonomous mission planning and operational testing
• Work on RF systems, GPS-denied navigation, and EW resilience integration
• Coordinate with embedded, mechanical, and production teams during testing phases
• Maintain testing reports, logs, SOPs, and validation documentation
• Identify system issues and support rapid prototyping and R&D improvements
• Ensure compliance with safety and operational testing standards
Required Skills:
• Hands-on experience in drone/UAV integration and testing
• Strong understanding of flight controllers and telemetry systems
• Knowledge of RF communication systems and payload integration
• Understanding of autonomous drone operations and mission planning
• Experience in field testing and debugging UAV systems
• Ability to work in fast-paced R&D and prototyping environments
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
Preferred Skills:
• Experience with GPS-denied navigation systems
• Understanding of Electronic Warfare (EW) resilience systems
• Familiarity with Ardupilot, PX4, or similar flight stacks
• Knowledge of embedded systems and communication protocols
Qualification:
• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Electronics, Aeronautical, Mechanical, Robotics, Embedded systems or related fields.

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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.





