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UAV Prototyping and Flight Support Engineer

Company

Tekever

Location

Leiria, Leiria District

Posted

June 15, 2026

Position Overview




Mission:

TEKEVER is looking for a UAV Prototyping Engineer to build, maintain and evolve a fleet of foam-based fixed-wing UAVs that will serve as the primary experimentation platform for the Data & AI Swarming Team. These platforms enable rapid development, testing and validation of early-stage autonomy, coordination and multirobot behaviours in a safe, low-risk environment. The foamy aircraft will be stable, repeatable and well documented, allowing structured testing before any future migration of algorithms to operational systems such as AR3.

Working on-site at Leiria within the AR3 workshop, this role combines 50% hands-on fabrication & maintenance with 50% engineering & integration, including autopilot setup (PX4/ArduPilot), parameterization, tuning, telemetry integration, log analysis and structured flight testing. While the core airframe designs already exist, the engineer will a...

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