The Drone Job Market - Drone Industry Insights

Software engineers are the most sought after in the drone industry both by platform manufacturers and by software companies. This is partly because some companies like Thales Alenia Space or DELAIR are both hardware and software manufacturers. Another reason is that hardware companies like the recently acquired Aeryon Labs, Flyability and Matternet are hiring software engineers for their R&D divisions firstly in order to continue increase the level of automation within their products (e.g. Hardware engineers are exclusively sought after by hardware manufacturers and, thanks to the many features which drones can and must contain, they come from a variety of backgrounds: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and aeronautical engineering. Sales roles are the portion of drone jobs which are customer oriented and as drone companies grow bigger increasingly focus on specific regions (for example, companies seeking sales executives for specifically California, or the Eastern Cape).