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It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

medical, though!

the medical places won’t generally, hire folks who haven’t done medical before. even if you have a bunch of robotics experience that’s applicable. you kind of need to get into it early in your career

I got pretty far into the hiring process at Intuitive Surgical as just a guy who knows Linux before I dropped, without ever having done any kind of robotics before. Not for me, but seems like an interesting place.

That’s not really true, but there are a couple of core things at play. Have you worked in a highly regulated I industry before ? Is the robotics you have been doing a close match to what they do?

i mostly mean that if you don’t want to be in weapons-related robotics and you’ve been working in non-medical, non-weapons-related robotics, getting into medical is difficult even when the skills and technology are transferable.

I do feel that medical gap - having worked in highly regulated avionics before, never got considered by medical companies despite transferrable skills (but I'm in software)

Medical is also mostly either old behemoth companies or startups , not a lot of in between. They both have opinions on who will ‘fit’.

Robotic CSAR and MedEvac are also a thing.

Yup - very hard to find money for it in the drone space though right now.