Communication Engineer Swarm Connectivity

We're Hiring: Communication Engineer – Swarm Connectivity

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Perception & Autonomy

At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter — developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LAT’s autonomy architecture.

We’re hiring a Communication Engineer who will design, evaluate, and optimize the mesh communication layer that forms the backbone of LAT’s swarm stack.

What you’ll do

• Select, evaluate, and integrate mesh radios suitable for UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-ground communication in dynamic swarm operations.

• Optimize RF performance — link budgets, throughput, latency, channel selection, antenna design, and interference management for multi-agent environments.

• Design swarm communication architectures supporting low-latency state sharing, decentralized coordination, and minimal-dropout operation at scale.

• Conduct real-world range, penetration, and reliability testing across terrain types, altitudes, and operational scenarios.

• Implement adaptive networking strategies: dynamic routing, link-quality estimation, fallback channels, and bandwidth prioritization.

• Evaluate and integrate COTS radios, SDR platforms, advanced antennas, and proprietary mesh systems as needed.

What we're looking for

• Strong fundamental understanding of RF systems, wireless communication, and mesh networking protocols (802.11s, MANETs, OLSR, DSDV, BATMAN, etc.).

• Experience with radio modules, SDRs, antennas, and integrating communication hardware into embedded systems.

• Experience with networking metrics, packet-level debugging, and tools like Wireshark, iperf, spectrum analyzers, SDR toolchains, etc.

• Comfortable working with embedded Linux, radio drivers, and networking stacks.

• Ability to test communication performance in field deployments and iterate based on real-world data.

Why LAT?

• Core-team role building the autonomy brain of India’s most ambitious aerospace startup.

• Ownership, speed, and the opportunity to define a new class of systems from scratch.