Autonomous drone systems for defense, infrastructure, and counter-drone operations
Airobotics manufactures fully autonomous unmanned aircraft systems for government and commercial deployment across defense, infrastructure surveillance, and counter-drone applications. The company is mid-way through a technical modernization: migrating legacy desktop operator interfaces to React + TypeScript web frontends while building new APIs for sensor data streams and external C2/radar system integration. Active hiring leans toward engineering and manufacturing roles in Israel, with concurrent focus on production-scale quality management — a signature pattern for hardware companies transitioning from R&D to sustained manufacturing.
Notable leadership hires: Quality Director
Airobotics designs and operates autonomous drone systems intended for mission-critical aerial infrastructure. The product suite centers on the Optimus, a fully automated system combining a drone, airbase, swappable payloads, and control software. The company serves government agencies, defense ministries, and commercial operators across safe-city surveillance, homeland security, industrial inspection, and aerial delivery. Founded in 2014 and based in Petah Tikva, Israel, Airobotics operates a vertically integrated business spanning aerospace hardware design, embedded systems, software engineering, and operational flight services.
Airobotics runs Windows, Linux, macOS across infrastructure; PX4 and ArduPilot for flight control; Python + FastAPI + WebSockets for backend APIs; React + TypeScript for modernized operator UIs; NVIDIA Jetson for onboard compute; Cisco and Fortinet for networking.
Current projects include UI modernization of operator interfaces (legacy desktop to web), API integration with external command-and-control and radar systems, real-time sensor data ingestion pipelines, mission control logic, and standardization of hardware-in-the-loop simulation environments.
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