Senior Research Engineer

Company Brief:

Planys is a deep-tech company developing mission-critical robotic and digital systems for defence and strategic infrastructure. The company designs and builds unmanned systems and advanced sensing solutions across underwater, maritime, and land domains, with a strong focus on naval, coast guard, and army applications. Planys is actively engaged in the development of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) ranging from small to extra-large platforms, along with ruggedised electronic and digital systems for armoured vehicles. Leveraging its strong foundation in marine robotics, underwater inspection, and non-destructive evaluation (NDT), Planys integrates defence-grade electronics, sensing, and data analytics to deliver high-reliability systems suitable for harsh operational environments. The company combines platform engineering, payload integration, and AI-enabled digital analytics to support situational awareness, asset integrity assessment, and data-driven decision-making for defence forces and strategic asset operators.

Planys, globally recognized for strategic infrastructure solutions, is now focused on creating a strong and enduring presence in the defence sector, delivering indigenous unmanned and digital systems for the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard. (Website: www.planystech.com)

Job Description:

1. Research and development:

• proof of concept
• scale up to commercial deployment.
• This includes literature/ patent reviews, product survey and Interaction between internal departments.
• Fundamentals of mathematics, physics, and programming
• Numerical, analytical, and experimental studies
• Documentation and report preparation Use of Microsoft Office tools including bibliography, cross-referencing, review-mode.

2.Field-related product and subsystems:

• Literature, product, and payload survey
• Preparation for training material, standard operation, and safety manuals
• Interaction with OEMs and inspection service providers
• Communication and articulation,
• Documentation and report preparation Use of Microsoft Office tools including bibliography, cross- referencing, review-mode.
• Version control of documentation

3.Project management:

• Oversee all the technical aspects of the project
• Maintain technical alignment with key stakeholders
• Management of timeline, budget, quality control, documentation
• Interface with other departments
• Technical support after product delivery and handover
• Preparation of periodic development and testing reports
• Project management tools
• Self and resource management
• Documentation and report preparation Use of Microsoft Office tools including bibliography, cross-referencing, review-mode

4. Implementation, active participation, and leading projects in the field:

• Project planning technical and logistics
• Mobilization and de-mobilization planning
• Training material, standard operation, and safety procedures
• Data acquisition planning
• Results and report generation
• Data logging, back-up creations, and redundancy planning
• May involve travel both in India and overseas
• Scheduling & resource and operations management

5.Implement control algorithms (PID/LQR/MPC as applicable) and integrate with vehicle dynamics Implement signal-processing pipelines (filtering, detection, feature extraction) for sensors

Tune controllers using logs/sim results and document tuning methodology

Controls + signal processing implementation , Solid math (linear algebra, kinematics/frames) , Data analysis and tuning workflow

6.Research, feasibility assessment, and state-of-the-art (SoA) studies for adapting emerging NDT techniques (ultrasonics, electromagnetics, acoustics), survey modalities (bathymetry, sub-bottom profiling, imaging sonar, scour estimation), and vision-based systems (laser, photogrammetry, LiDAR) to robotic platforms

Research & analysis, domain knowledge in NDT and survey systems, critical thinking, technical writing

7.Project delivery management, continuous improvement of existing products and services (reliability, maintainability, lifecycle), corrective action implementation, IP generation (papers, patents), and contribution to standards and processes

Project management, continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, scientific publishing, IP management.