Flight Systems Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Oregon
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience building, tuning, testing, or flying UAVs
- Strong working knowledge of ArduPilot, PX4, or similar autopilot systems
- Comfortable reading flight logs and identifying root causes
- Experience with GPS, airspeed sensors, telemetry radios, servos, ESCs, power systems, batteries, and wiring
- Ability to debug real hardware issues using logs, multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or any necessary tool
- Good understanding of flight modes, control loops, sensor behavior, and aircraft dynamics
- Hands-on ability with soldering, crimping, wiring, bench testing, and field troubleshooting
- Strong safety judgment and calm decision-making during test operations
- Startup mindset: high ownership, practical, fast, low ego
Nice to have
- Experience with fixed-wing VTOL aircraft
- Experience with larger UAVs, long-range UAVs, or logistics aircraft
- Experience with BVLOS preparation, Remote ID, ADS-B, detect-and-avoid, or FAA test environments
- Experience debugging vibration, EMI, GPS multipath, noisy power, or sensor dropouts
- Python, MATLAB, or scripting experience for flight-log analysis
- Experience with redundant avionics, safety cases, or aviation-grade documentation
Full description
Haast Autonomous is building an autonomous aircraft network for time-sensitive medical logistics. We’re developing long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and the operational foundation needed to move critical payloads between hospitals, labs, and healthcare facilities on-demand faster and more reliably.
We’re early, small, and moving quickly. Joining now means you'll have a direct role in shaping the foundation of Haast — our culture, engineering process, testing discipline, partner relationships, and the path from prototype to a real medical logistics network.
We’re looking for high-agency people who want ownership, urgency, and system-level impact from day one.
About the Role
As a Flight Systems Engineer at Haast, you will own the systems that transform our aircraft from hardware into a reliable, autonomous flying platform.
You will work across autopilot setup, avionics integration, sensors, wiring, telemetry, power distribution, failsafes, flight modes, tuning, and flight-test support. You will help us understand why the aircraft behaved in a certain way, what needs to change, and how to improve the next test.
This is one of the most important technical roles at Haast. Reliability begins here.
What You’ll Do
- Own autopilot configuration, tuning, and flight control setup for fixed-wing VTOL aircraft
- Work with ArduPilot, PX4, Mission Planner, QGroundControl, MAVLink, or similar systems
- Integrate GPS, airspeed sensors, telemetry radios, RC links, ADS-B, payload sensors, servos, ESCs, and other avionics
- Design, build, and debug wiring harnesses, power distribution systems, connectors, and avionics layouts
- Develop and validate failsafes, geofencing, lost-link behavior, emergency procedures, and flight modes
- Review flight logs and diagnose issues related to controls, sensors, vibration, power, telemetry, configuration, or airframe behavior
- Build SITL/HITL workflows and connect simulation behavior to real aircraft operations
- Prepare aircraft for flight tests through parameter reviews, pre-flight checks, and system validation
- Collaborate with mechanical, simulation, and flight-test engineers to improve reliability
- Document avionics architecture, wiring diagrams, parameter changes, test results, and lessons learned
- Help build the controls and avionics foundation for a scalable autonomous aircraft network
What We’re Looking For
- Experience building, tuning, testing, or flying UAVs