Oct 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Buchs (SG), St Gallen, Switzerland · Hybrid

• As a Electronics Systems Engineer leading various activities in the domain at SwissDrones, a global leader in aerial intelligence solutions, I played a pivotal role in the development and testing of uncrewed helicopter systems for applications in energy infrastructure, emergency response, and environmental management. My key responsibilities included:
• Leading the design and production of comprehensive documentation in alignment with industry standards, ensuring precision and regulatory compliance.
• Spearheading the testing of electronic components to enable long-range Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flight capabilities, significantly enhancing operational safety and efficiency.
• Overseeing the implementation of a network-agnostic communication solution, enhancing connectivity across a variety of operational environments.
• Enhancing datalink capabilities for onboard and ground systems, supporting the successful execution of long-range BVLOS missions.
• Designing sensor interfaces and customizing settings for a range of aircraft to meet diverse customer requirements across different global regions.
• Driving the selection of electronic components and managing the preparation, release, and configuration control of engineering data for seamless handover to production.
• Providing interdisciplinary input for interface design while proactively contributing to critical domain-specific decisions.
• Mentoring and training new team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the electrical engineering team.
• Successfully completing Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR) for assigned systems while supporting assessments for additional systems.
• Contributing to certification processes, including Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) and Development Verification Plan (DVP), while assisting in the assembly and integration of complex systems.

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 · 7 mos · Banglore · Hybrid

• Technically responsible for electronics system and circuit design from functional requirement, to a qualified product through converting to system specification, Architectural design, conveying to peers, designing with the team with cost, testability and manufacturability as important variables, development of test plans, developing and supporting fabrication and production partners etc…
• This included Designing an architecture of electronics subsystem.
•  Reviews of the detailed schematics.
•  Performing Signal integrity analysis and analyzing the results.
•  Providing guidelines to the other functional teams for the PCB design and
• development
•  Optimizing the design to cost and interfacing with the Industrialization for the
• development of electronics subsystems.

Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · On-site

Sep 2008 – Jul 2021 · 12 yrs 10 mos · Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

• System architect for electronics system for space application, launch vehicles, and ground systems.
• Design concept formulation- circuit design, RTL design, PCB design (multi-layer PCB) along with justification of design, critical appreciation of design, circuit review, code review, and its documentation.
• Team efforts in quality testing and assessment, PCB fabrication, wiring, debugging, root cause analysis and closeout, environmental testing, qualification for end-use, spacecraft integration testing, onboard operations and performance evaluation.