eVTOL aircraft design, avionics, and flight control systems for India's urban air mobility
Sarla Aviation is building electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for India's emerging urban air mobility market. The tech stack reveals a hardware-first, aerospace-grade engineering operation: MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow for control systems modeling; Altium, KiCAD, and Cadence for avionics and motor controller design; NASTRAN and Simcenter for structural and thermal simulation; Polarion and IBM DOORS for compliance tracking. The hiring shape—20 engineers, 11 at senior level, plus 2 leads—and active projects across flight control, avionics, and high-performance propulsion hardware suggest a team deep in prototype maturation and certification readiness.
Notable leadership hires: Electrical Wiring Lead
Sarla Aviation designs and manufactures eVTOL aircraft and subsystems for urban air mobility in India. Founded in 2023, the company operates from Bengaluru with ~51–200 employees, organized around electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering. Core work spans airframe and aircraft architecture, flight control system development, avionics integration, and high-performance motor controller hardware for electric propulsion. The company builds low-volume, high-complexity prototypes and small production runs, supported by in-house design tooling. Current focus areas include platform certification, system integration testing, and manufacturing process optimization to meet aerospace standards while maintaining aggressive development timelines.
eVTOL aircraft (electric vertical-takeoff aircraft) for urban air mobility. Primary work includes flight control systems, avionics for next-generation aircraft, propulsion motor controller hardware, and airframe design. Currently pursuing platform certification.
MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow for control logic; Altium, KiCAD, and Cadence for PCB/avionics; NASTRAN and Simcenter for structural/thermal analysis; Polarion and IBM DOORS for aerospace compliance tracking; ROS/ROS 2 for autonomy.
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