Jobs at Darkblade Systems

Designs, prototypes, integrates, troubleshoots, and tests embedded electronic systems for unmanned and autonomous platforms. Responsibilities span architecture, component selection, schematic and PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, sensor and communications integration, and system testing. The role supports flight-control hardware, avionics, imaging systems, and mission-critical platforms while collaborating with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers.

Provides all-source technical intelligence analysis supporting UAS, Counter-UAS, and emerging threat missions. Integrates HUMINT, SIGINT, ELINT, FISINT, IMINT, and TECHINT; researches classified and open-source information; produces intelligence reports, threat assessments, briefings, and analytical products; supports ISR planning, collection activities, operational decision-making, and intelligence preparation of the battlefield. The role is onsite at Aberdeen Proving Ground, operates in a classified environment, and requires up to 50% travel.

Provides onsite operational and technical support in a mission-critical environment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting system issues, assisting users and help desk technicians, monitoring system and network status, maintaining SOPs, SLAs, tickets, and documentation, communicating operational updates, and coordinating issue resolution with customer stakeholders. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope lifestyle polygraph and does not permit sponsorship or clearance upgrades.

Conduct supply chain illumination, risk assessments, foreign ownership analysis, and vulnerability evaluations supporting government defense missions. Research classified and unclassified intelligence, assess emerging technologies and critical suppliers, integrate information from multiple intelligence disciplines, and produce analytical reports, technical assessments, executive briefings, and risk mitigation recommendations. The role is onsite in a classified environment at Aberdeen Proving Ground and may require up to 50% CONUS and OCONUS travel.

Develop production-quality front-end applications for modeling and simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and engineering environments. Build interfaces for configuration, data visualization, simulation control, and interaction with physical and simulated hardware. Integrate applications with real-time data, APIs, telemetry, and backend services while collaborating with modeling, embedded, hardware, and systems engineers. Support testing, code review, Git, and CI/CD practices for national security missions.

Supports integration, verification, validation, and delivery of complex hardware/software systems. Develops integration and test plans, tracks requirements and technical issues, coordinates across engineering disciplines, maintains system documentation, and creates user manuals and operating procedures. The role also supports system-level testing, configuration management, requirements traceability, risk resolution, and technical reporting for national security missions.

Conduct Weapons Technical Intelligence analysis of IEDs, unmanned systems, battlefield recoveries, and emerging threats. Produce technical intelligence reports, threat assessments, briefings, and exploitation products for government mission partners. Research classified and unclassified information, interpret radiographic imagery, support deployed exploitation activities, and collaborate with intelligence, engineering, and technical teams in highly classified operational environments.

Develop and debug low-level firmware for embedded processors, sensors, motors, gimbals, optics, and other electromechanical systems. Integrate hardware with electrical, mechanical, software, and systems teams; troubleshoot hardware-firmware issues; and implement new functionality. The role requires C/C++ firmware experience, embedded interfaces, real-time systems knowledge, laboratory debugging skills, schematic and datasheet interpretation, and an active TS/SCI clearance. It is based onsite at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, with no regular travel.

The DevOps Engineer automates and optimizes deployments across platforms, builds consistent CI/CD processes, manages AWS infrastructure, and develops production-ready code and infrastructure. Responsibilities include Kubernetes and Docker containerization, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, Jenkins or GitHub Actions pipelines, scripting with Python, Bash, or Ruby, and Agile software development. The role is fully onsite, requires an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope or lifestyle polygraph, and involves no travel.

Conducts all-source Weapons Technical Intelligence analysis involving unmanned systems, improvised threats, battlefield recoveries, and commercial technologies. Produces technical exploitation reports, intelligence assessments, executive briefings, and operational intelligence products for Government stakeholders. Supports threat network targeting, force protection, classified research, and expeditionary exploitation missions while collaborating with military, Government, engineering, and technical teams. The onsite Aberdeen Proving Ground role requires up to 50% CONUS and OCONUS travel.

Creates and maintains technical documentation, operational procedures, user guides, manuals, training materials, reports, and presentations. Gathers information from software developers, engineers, and technical subject matter experts, translating complex concepts into clear documentation for technical and non-technical audiences. Manages documentation lifecycle activities, maintains internal libraries, coordinates formatting and layout, and supports configuration-controlled documentation environments. The role is fully onsite in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, requires an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph, and involves no travel.