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We have customers across four continents and closed a Series A round in September 2026 led by the NATO Innovation Fund.\nWe are looking for a mechatronics engineer to join the team developing the LKX-DRONE and contribute to the mechanical design of the drone, its docking and charging interface, and overall hardening of the solution.\nThe LKX-DRONE is a drone-based monitoring system for power grids, built to fully automate tower inspection, preventive maintenance, post-storm inspection, wildfire surveillance and security reconnaissance. 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