Full-Time
Senior Electrical Engineer
Posted on 10/31/2025
Matternet
51-200 employees
End-to-end drone delivery platform for healthcare
Compensation Overview
$150k - $230k/yr
Mountain View, CA, USA
In Person
On-site role; manufacturing environment.
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- 7+ years in electronics development for embedded or high-reliability systems, preferably in UAV, robotics, or aerospace sectors
- Proficiency in circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout tools (e.g., Altium, Eagle)
- Experience with embedded systems, sensors, and communication protocols (e.g., I2C, SPI, CAN)
- Strong hands-on background in prototyping and testing electrical systems
- Experience taking products from prototype to production
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
- Design and prototype electrical systems for UAVs, including power distribution, communication, and control systems
- Perform analysis and testing of electrical components to validate performance against specifications
- Integrate electrical systems with mechanical and software components to create cohesive UAV solutions
- Lead troubleshooting and debugging of electrical issues during prototype development and flight testing
- Collaborate with firmware and software engineers to implement and refine control algorithms
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements in all electrical designs
- Experience with UAV systems, autopilot hardware, and flight controls
- Strong understanding of electromagnetic compatibility and radio frequency interference
- Familiarity with applicable industry standards
- Experience in power electronics and battery management systems
- Knowledge of software development and firmware integration
Matternet provides an end-to-end drone delivery platform for healthcare, e-commerce, and logistics. The system includes the Matternet M2 drone, Matternet Station ground hubs, and the Matternet Cloud Platform. Customers subscribe to this platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to plan, manage, and execute drone deliveries, such as medical supplies and COVID-19 vaccines, with real-time monitoring and routing through the cloud. The M2 drone carries payloads between centralized hubs and delivery points, using the Station as the ground interface. Unlike many competitors, Matternet combines hardware, software, and a global network into a single, scalable service, with established deployments like a city-wide network in Abu Dhabi and a partnership with UPS to extend logistics capabilities. Its goal is to make drone delivery a reliable, scalable part of everyday operations for hospitals, retailers, and logistics providers around the world.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$95.5M
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2011
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- NHS city-wide network expansion signals institutional demand for recurring revenue.
- ANRA UTM partnership removes airspace management bottleneck for multi-operator scaling.
- German LBA BVLOS authorization establishes regulatory precedent across EU healthcare systems.
What critics are saying
- Wing operates competing NHS medical drone service; expands to additional trusts faster.
- Apian hardware-agnostic positioning enables switching to lower-cost drone competitors.
- UPS deprioritizes drone delivery due to labor agreements or operational complexity.
What makes Matternet unique
- Only drone delivery system with FAA Type Certification as of May 2026.
- 50,000+ commercial autonomous deliveries across Europe and US since 2017.
- 60-second battery and payload swap enables scaled unit economics for operations.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
401(k) Retirement Plan
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↓ -1%NHS London launches medical drone deliveries with Matternet. Matternet has launched drone delivery operations in Central London, connecting two of the NHS's busiest hospital campuses with aerial routes designed to move medical cargo in minutes. The service, operated in partnership with British healthcare logistics company Apian, uses Matternet's M2 drone system to transport diagnostic samples, laboratory specimens, pharmaceuticals and other time-sensitive payloads between hospital sites. Matternet is one of the major drone delivery companies based in California's Silicon Valley. The London news marks a significant milestone for the company, which has done some small scale urban home deliveries in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as other projects including operations in Saudi Arabia. It's also been running commercial medical drone delivery operations since 2017 in Switzerland and 2019 in the U.S... And the company has claimed it has enabled tens of thousands of commercial flights over dense urban environments across three continents. Drone Girl readers with long memories will note that medical deliveries in the U.K. are also familiar territory. London has been here before. London's medical drone deliveries in 2024. In November 2024, The Drone Girl covered a drone delivery service operating between Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital - two NHS facilities less than two miles apart on either side of the Thames, but separated by up to 40 minutes of London ground traffic. That service was operated by Wing, the drone delivery company affiliated with Google, also working with Apian and the NHS Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust. That Wing operation was framed as a test to prove that medical drone delivery could work in one of Europe's most complex airspaces, over dense urban populations, past landmarks like Big Ben and the London Eye. It appears to have worked well enough that the NHS is now doubling down with a second operator and a more explicitly infrastructure-oriented approach. What's different this time with Matternet. The Matternet launch shares a partner with Apian, but it brings different hardware, different credentials, and a different stated ambition. For starters, Matternet's M2 drone is the only drone delivery system in the world to have achieved FAA Type Certification, the same regulatory standard applied to manned aircraft. The stated goal this time is also more expansive. Whereas the Wing operation was described as a live trial, Matternet and Apian are explicitly framing this as the foundation of a city-wide medical drone network for the NHS. It even suggested plans to expand to additional hospital campuses, payload types, and healthcare use cases across London as the network develops. The consistent thread across both operations is Apian, which is a British company co-founded by NHS doctors that provides the logistics orchestration layer connecting hospitals, labs, and pharmacies through drones, ground robotics, and coordination software. Apian is not a drone company, but rather the platform that makes drone delivery work within the operational reality of NHS hospital systems through work such as integrating with existing workflows, managing routing and scheduling, and handling the logistics coordination that determines whether any of this is actually useful clinically. Given that Apian has now worked with both Wing and Matternet, it suggests that Apian is positioning itself as the NHS's hardware-agnostic drone logistics infrastructure provider. Did you enjoy this analysis of the drone industry? If so please consider making a one-time or recurring donation to TheDroneGirl.com. I write these stories as a side project because it brings me joy, but it also brings me web hosting costs. Make a one-time donation. Make a monthly donation. Your contribution is appreciated. Donate monthly Make a yearly donation. Your contribution is appreciated. Donate yearly If you want to help cover my web hosting fees (or just want to buy me a cup of coffee to fuel my next article), please donate to TheDroneGirl on PayPal!
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