Integration Engineer, Radar and Drone Software (Counter-UAS)

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• Role: Engineering / Embedded systems
• Experience: 1+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only
• Skills: C++, Python, TCP/IP, Linux, Embedded Linux, Firmware, Device Drivers, Sensor integration

We are Jasper and Alessandro, the founders of Impact Drones (YC S26). Jasper, an aerospace engineer (MSc, TU Delft), has built drones for over a decade, including the Hannover Messe VTOL competition winner, and worked with special forces on the 2025 NATO Summit counter-drone plan; Alessandro (MSc, Columbia) built the pipeline behind our 176M USD in signed LOIs.

We are hiring an integration engineer in Los Angeles to connect radars and drones into one system. We do not build radars: we use the best ones, plus whatever a customer already runs, and own the software that turns a radar track into an interceptor launch.

In March 2026, Iranian drones struck three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. Fiber-optic FPV drones cannot be jammed. The only thing that stops them is a physical intercept. That is what we build.

About Impact Drones
We sell Air Defense as a Service to civilian critical infrastructure. One container on site senses, decides and launches. It combines a sensor mast, our engagement software and 8 open launch bays built to our Open Launch Standard. The bays take SABLE, our jet interceptor, and third-party interceptors too. Interceptors change. The bay stays.

What you will own

• Integrating third-party radars, RF detectors and EO/IR cameras.
• Fusing their tracks into one air picture.
• Connecting third-party interceptors in our launch bays (MAVLink and vendor interfaces) and customer C2 systems (SAPIENT, Cursor on Target).