UAV / Drone Engineer
UAV / Drone Engineer ships physical systems where software, electronics, and field constraints meet.
Salary from
$1,937
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to
$4,177
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs
90
Last 3 months
Applications per job
2.24
JobNote category match
Published signal
UAV Engineer · DefTech + Hardware / DefTech family
$1,500
UAV Engineer median
281
Hardware jobs · June record
Hiring Screen for tested hardware, field failures, interfaces, and manufacturing or deployment constraints.
Candidate Show what worked outside the lab and how you diagnosed failure.
Data DefTech only; net monthly DOU survey median. Broad Hardware-category signal, not an exact speciality count.
Most wanted skills
Counts of active jobs now and salaries.
Ardupilot
21
$1439–$3592
Embedded
16
$2160–$4465
UAV
13
$1255–$3773
PX4
10
$1703–$4268
CAD
9
$1717–$3182
Technical Writing
9
$1771–$3043
MAVLINK
8
$1695–$3623
Python
8
$2955–$4687
Soldering
8
$1324–$2771
C/C++
7
$2439–$4771
SolidWorks
7
$1799–$3032
3D Modeling
6
$1477–$3149
I2C
6
$1618–$4240
Mechanical Engineering
6
$1990–$3275
Mission Planner
6
$1350–$2668
PID Tuning
6
$1600–$3033
Radio Communications
6
$1268–$3110
SPI
6
$1561–$4214
UART
6
$1649–$4093
UAV Systems
6
$1907–$3957
Analytics
5
$1862–$3251
Betaflight
5
$1600–$3564
CAN
5
$1752–$3900
Linux
5
$1976–$3852