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Sr. Product Engineer (UAV)
122 500 - 187 000$
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TL;DR
Sr. Product Engineer (UAV): Leading sustaining engineering and product improvements for unmanned air vehicle systems, including structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, and production documentation with an accent on design verification, configuration management, and manufacturing support. Focus on solving complex technical issues across engineering, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, and customers while transitioning product variants into production.
Location: Moorpark, California, United States; onsite work in office and manufacturing environments is required. Frequent travel to suppliers, system tests, and customers is also required.
Salary: $122,500–$187,000 per year.
Company
develops autonomous systems and defense technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.
What you will do
- Lead sustaining engineering support for UAV systems used in military and commercial applications.
- Develop, test, and release product improvements, product variants, prototype hardware, and design modifications.
- Manage product configuration, engineering change orders, and product data in Oracle PLM.
- Release and maintain drawings, bills of materials, manufacturing procedures, manuals, acceptance test procedures, tooling, and test equipment documentation.
- Act as the technical point of contact for manufacturing, customer, supplier, and product issues, including failure analysis and obsolescence management.
- Coordinate engineering activities with product managers, project managers, design engineers, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, suppliers, and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- 8–12 years of related experience in engineering design and production product support.
- Experience with unmanned air vehicles, RF, digital and communications electronics, electronics manufacturing troubleshooting, PCB layout, schematics, and assemblies.
- Experience with CAD and Altium, including ASME Y14 drawing standards, configuration management, and production assembly documentation.
- Knowledge of engineering fundamentals, mathematics, physics, material properties, electronics, systems, and software.
- Must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR requirements; U.S. citizenship is required for this position.
Nice to have
- Lean Six Sigma experience or Green Belt certification.
- Advanced degree or team leadership experience.
- Experience with Oracle PLM product configuration management and MIL-HDBK-61A or EIA-649-B standards.
- Experience solving structural dynamics problems and evaluating complex technical issues.
Culture & Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with company matching.
- 9/80 work schedule.
- Paid holiday shutdown.
- Work in a fast-paced environment with strong emphasis on teamwork, ownership, continuous improvement, and mission-focused engineering.
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