Sensor Validation & Calibration Engineer
Swiss robotics company producing collision-tolerant indoor drones and inspection-data software for hazardous and confined spaces.
About Flyability
Flyability SA develops the Elios drone platform and Inspector software to enable remote visual inspection, 3D mapping, surveying, and analysis of industrial confined spaces.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will own the testing, calibration, and qualification of inspection-drone sensors from prototype through production. You will design and run test campaigns, build calibration and test benches with mechanical and electronics colleagues, analyze flight-test data, and transfer calibration processes to manufacturing. You will define calibration procedures and acceptance criteria, lead inertial-sensor work, support mechanical sensor integration, and monitor production data.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Robotics, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in sensor testing, calibration, metrology, or system validation
- Experience delivering a calibration or test bench into production
- Experience designing test setups and fixtures for electromechanical systems and running temperature, shock, and vibration tests
- Experience with inertial sensors, IMU characterization, Allan variance, error modeling, and vibration isolation
- Experience with camera or lidar calibration and associated targets and tooling
- Proficiency in Python for data acquisition, analysis, and test automation
- Comfort with lab instrumentation and automated measurement
- Ability to work autonomously and document and transfer procedures to production
- Professional working proficiency in English
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and qualify production calibration benches for cameras, IMUs, and lidars
- Define and run sensor validation test plans, including characterization, environmental tests, and flight-test data analysis
- Own calibration procedures and acceptance criteria for intrinsic, extrinsic, IMU, and camera-IMU calibration with uncertainty estimation
- Serve as the reference for inertial sensors, including IMU selection, error modeling, and vibration isolation
- Integrate sensors mechanically, including mounting, alignment, thermal behavior, sealing, and field of view
- Transfer calibration and end-of-line tests to manufacturing and analyze production data
Benefits
- 25 vacation days per year plus public holidays
- Up to 5 additional vacation days based on seniority
- Accident insurance covering medical treatments and hospitalization
- Flexible schedules
- Remote-work option up to 2 days per week
- Discounts on gym memberships and sports events
- Swibeco discounts and rewards platform
- Team events including ski weekends, summer barbecues, and after-work gatherings