Advanced Product Development & Integration Engineer - Electrical Systems (Unmanned Systems)

Location: Red Cat Corporate, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The role requires outdoor work at test ranges, vehicle test areas, docks, and aboard small vessels, with approximately 25% travel for field testing, demonstrations, and customer events.

Company

hirify.global develops multi-domain unmanned systems for defense customers across air, ground, and maritime environments.

What you will do

• Evaluate emerging electrical components, power technologies, and partner hardware through bench testing and rapid prototyping.
• Design electrical architectures for unmanned platforms, including power distribution, battery integration, grounding, circuit protection, power conversion, schematics, PCB layouts, and harnesses.
• Integrate payloads, sensors, navigation systems, radios, onboard computers, and other mission equipment across air, ground, and maritime vehicles.
• Build and bring up prototype hardware while validating pinouts, power rails, signal integrity, and subsystem interfaces.
• Support bench, flight, ground, and on-water testing; troubleshoot failures and perform root-cause analysis.
• Maintain electrical documentation and support design-for-manufacturing activities, production transition, customer demonstrations, and field events.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 2 years of experience designing or integrating electrical hardware, preferably for unmanned systems, robotics, aerospace, marine, automotive, or defense applications.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD.
• Experience with wire-harness design, connector selection, electrical interface definition, DC power systems, batteries, grounding, and circuit protection.
• Familiarity with CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, RS-232/422/485, PWM, and DShot interfaces, as well as oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, and soldering or rework tools.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident and must not require sponsorship for ITAR/EAR-controlled work. Successful completion of a post-offer background check is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-domain unmanned systems, robotics, FPV or small UAS hardware, marine systems, ground vehicles, or other mobile platforms.
• Knowledge of RF/datalink integration, antennas, interference mitigation, environmental sealing, waterproofing, or corrosion control.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, production transition, Python-based test automation, or data analysis.
• Military or operational experience with unmanned systems, or hands-on experience building and operating FPV/UxS platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work across laboratory, vehicle, flight, ground, and maritime test environments.
• Regular collaboration with embedded, mechanical, RF/datalink, autonomy, test, manufacturing, and production engineers.
• Work involves lithium batteries, high-current electrical systems, rotating machinery, moving vehicles, and RF equipment under required safety and PPE procedures.
• Ability to lift and carry equipment weighing up to 40 pounds and work standing, kneeling, crouching, or in tight spaces is required.
• Occasional extended hours or weekend work may be required during test events.