Hardware Platform Lead - Autonomous Drone Systems

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 135,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor seeks a Hardware Platform Technical Leader to drive system design for autonomous drones, focusing on EW-resistant RF and encryption. The role involves leading architecture decisions, prototyping, and collaborating with customers to meet aggressive timelines.

You will recruit and mentor junior engineers, oversee design implementation, testing, and production rollout, and work closely with software to deliver rapid prototypes in a startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in autonomous drone hardware design and implementation as a tech lead.
• Extensive knowledge of EW resistant RF design.
• Knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption and RF transmission.
• US Citizen required, ability to hold clearance desirable.

Responsibilities

• System design, architecture and tradeoffs; conceptualize and turn into physical reality.
• Interview junior candidates, select and form the team.
• Design implementation, testing, production rollout.

Skills

Drone hardware design

EW resistant RF design

RF encryption knowledge

ArduPilot

PX4

Tools

ArduPilot

PX4

Job description

Vantor seeks a Hardware Platform Technical Leader to drive system design for autonomous drones, focusing on EW-resistant RF and encryption. The role involves leading architecture decisions, prototyping, and collaborating with customers to meet aggressive timelines.

You will recruit and mentor junior engineers, oversee design implementation, testing, and production rollout, and work closely with software to deliver rapid prototypes in a startup-like environment.