UAV Hardware & Systems Engineer Intern

About the Role

AXALON Systems Pvt. Ltd. is an early-stage startup building drone-based thermal inspection for solar plants. You will work directly with the founders and build hardware that flies in the field.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, wire, and tune custom multirotor drones: frame, motors, ESCs, flight controller, power system.
• Integrate payloads: thermal camera, gimbal, Jetson companion computer, GPS, telemetry radios.
• Design and iterate mounts, enclosures, and brackets in CAD, using AI tools to speed up design and scripting.
• Use AI tools to research components, datasheets, standards, and failure modes, and turn findings into short, sourced design notes.
• Run bench tests, ground tests, and flight tests; analyze flight logs and fix root causes.
• Support field deployments at solar sites and help improve our build and pre-flight checklists.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Pursuing or recently completed a B.Tech or Diploma in Electronics, Mechatronics, Aerospace, Mechanical, or similar.
• Hands-on projects: a drone, robot, or embedded build you can show us.
• Comfortable with soldering, a multimeter, and reading schematics and datasheets.
• Working knowledge of CAD (Fusion 360 or SolidWorks) and 3D printing.
• You use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, and similar) daily for research and design, and you verify what they tell you.
• Careful about safety, especially LiPo batteries and propellers.
• Willing to do field work and travel to sites.

Hardware Skills That Will Set You Apart

• PX4 or ArduPilot setup and tuning, MAVLink.
• Power systems: battery sizing, PDB/BEC design, voltage-drop and current budgets.
• Motor, ESC, and propeller matching; thrust tests and flight-time estimation.
• Vibration and EMI troubleshooting: IMU isolation, grounding, shielding, log analysis.
• Radiometric thermal cameras: emissivity settings, calibration, lens FOV and ground sampling distance.
• Embedded basics: UART, I2C, SPI, CAN debugging; STM32 or Arduino; PCB schematics (KiCad).
• AI-assisted CAD: scripting parts with CadQuery or OpenSCAD, generative design, rapid prototyping.
• DGCA drone rules and remote pilot certification (a plus).