Jobs at Performance Drone Works

Build and mature PDW’s cybersecurity GRC program across enterprise, engineering, manufacturing, and business systems. Translate CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, ISO 27001, ITAR, and customer requirements into controls; manage risk assessments, documentation, evidence, audits, remediation, vulnerability management, and third-party risk. Configure and validate security tools, support incident response, improve endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and monitoring controls, and report security metrics to leadership. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with auditors, customers, vendors, and system owners.

Manages supplier quality programs, qualification processes, approved supplier lists, risk matrices, corrective actions, audits, performance reviews, and supplier quality metrics. Partners with supply chain, engineering, and quality teams to ensure purchased products meet requirements. Leads first article inspections and capability studies, analyzes inspection data, maintains quality records, and conducts supplier visits. The role supports manufacturing environments, factory acceptance testing, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Lead systems engineering for tactical unmanned aircraft, payloads, mission systems, and infrastructure. Own requirements, interfaces, technical baselines, MBSE models, trade studies, verification plans, and integration activities from concept through production. Partner across engineering, product, testing, manufacturing, and customers while establishing technical standards. Build organizational capability through hiring, mentoring, resource planning, and scaling the Denver engineering hub.

Leads PDW’s flight operations organization and strategy across production, development, qualification, testing, demonstrations, and customer support. Owns flight safety, regulatory compliance, pilot qualification, readiness reviews, scheduling, fleet records, facilities, airspace authorizations, deployments, budgets, and operational metrics. Partners cross-functionally to resolve readiness constraints and leads incident investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.

Leads electrical engineering for complex PCB assemblies and subsystems from concept through production. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout guidance, design reviews, board bring-up, validation, manufacturing support, analog/digital/power circuit design, root cause analysis, and field troubleshooting. The role collaborates across engineering and operations teams, mentors junior engineers, supports production scale-up, and improves processes for reliable tactical robotic systems.

Own and improve integrated manufacturing FP&A models covering revenue, production, COGS, margins, capacity, headcount, CapEx, inventory, working capital, and cash. Lead budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, dashboards, investment cases, and actual-to-model reviews. Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Accounting, and executive stakeholders to evaluate expansion, manufacturing tradeoffs, and new product verticals.

Own FP&A planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance management for OpEx, CapEx, and headcount. Analyze variances, maintain financial models, track capital investments, support monthly close, and provide executive-ready insights. Partner with department leaders, Accounting, and People Operations to improve budget accountability, forecast accuracy, reporting, and investment decisions in a rapidly scaling hardware and manufacturing environment.

Engineering talent community for current and future opportunities supporting tactical unmanned systems. Engineers may work in mechanical, electrical, embedded software, or software engineering, contributing to system design, development, integration, testing, troubleshooting, prototyping, and production. Roles involve cross-disciplinary collaboration, hardware interaction, and real-world product development for defense, national security, and public safety applications.

Engineering talent community for current and future PDW opportunities in Denver. Engineers may design, develop, integrate, test, and support production of tactical unmanned systems across mechanical, electrical, embedded software, and software engineering. Work may include mechanical design, PCB development, C/C++ embedded systems, Qt applications, QML interfaces, hardware integration, prototyping, troubleshooting, validation, and production support. Candidates should collaborate across disciplines, solve problems hands-on, and work effectively in a fast-moving environment.

Talent community opportunity for engineers interested in current and future PDW roles in Boston. Potential work spans mechanical, electrical, embedded software, and software engineering for unmanned tactical robotic systems, including design, development, integration, testing, debugging, and production support. Candidates should have a relevant technical degree or equivalent experience, hands-on engineering skills, strong troubleshooting ability, cross-disciplinary collaboration skills, and willingness to work with hardware and prototypes. ITAR eligibility requires U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or qualifying asylee/refugee status.

Manages revenue operations across pipeline forecasting, quote approvals, bookings, revenue support, reporting, and product administration. Reviews Salesforce data, coordinates cross-functional booking and revenue processes, leads SKU and price book setup, validates Salesforce and NetSuite workflows, reconciles data using Excel and Power BI, and documents scalable procedures and controls. The role partners with Sales, Finance, Product, Manufacturing, Customer Success, and business systems teams to resolve exceptions and improve commercial operations.

Own Salesforce administration, architecture, security, automation, data modeling, integrations, reporting, releases, and platform health. Translate business requirements into scalable solutions supporting revenue operations, quoting, approvals, forecasting, order workflows, and reporting. Troubleshoot production issues, manage data operations and governance, coordinate with IT and business stakeholders, maintain Gov Cloud controls, document processes, manage the platform roadmap, and mentor junior administrators.

Develop and deploy production software for tactical robotic and sUAS systems. Design cross-platform Qt and C++ applications with QML interfaces, integrate REST and JSON data, manage builds and dependencies, and use third-party APIs. Support field deployments, troubleshooting, code reviews, optimization, and security improvements while collaborating with product teams and stakeholders. The role requires Secret clearance eligibility and occasional travel to customer locations.

Leads the design, deployment, and sustainment of software for automated manufacturing tests, production diagnostics, hardware validation, telemetry, and traceability. Develops Python and systems automation, maintains Linux manufacturing infrastructure, manages configuration and release processes, troubleshoots integrated hardware and software, and improves production throughput and reliability. Partners with engineering, quality, supply chain, production, and field teams; mentors others and supports deployment, training, and sustainment across manufacturing environments.

Provide technical leadership and architecture for complex electrical subsystems across tactical robotic product programs. Establish engineering standards, lead design reviews, improve reliability and manufacturability, support high-rate manufacturing and suppliers, resolve production issues, investigate system failures, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep analog, digital, power, embedded, and high-speed design expertise, with occasional customer or facility travel.

Leads electrical manufacturing engineering across tactical sUAS platforms, focusing on DFM/DFT, NPI industrialization, production readiness, tooling, fixtures, test systems, automation, factory layouts, capacity planning, and continuous improvement. Partners cross-functionally to develop manufacturing documentation, resolve production issues, implement quality controls, scale automated assembly and test lines, optimize labor and material flow, and support pilot-to-ramp production while improving throughput, cost, quality, safety, and yield.

Drive software and integrated-system QA for UAV products across bench, simulation, and flight-test environments. Develop manual and automated tests, Python utilities, and CI/CD validation workflows; analyze defects, logs, telemetry, and system behavior; maintain QA documentation and test management records; support release readiness and corrective actions; collaborate with firmware, embedded, production, and flight-test teams; and mentor junior QA engineers.

Owns schedule, cost, and scope for cross-functional technical production programs from concept through design, integration, verification, and production transition. Responsibilities include managing schedules, risks, action items, production reviews, change control boards, readiness assessments, program metrics, design reviews, prototype builds, testing, validation, and issue resolution across hardware and software teams.

Provides technical leadership for complex electrical systems throughout architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, bring-up, testing, manufacturing, and production. Leads design reviews, standards development, root-cause analysis, supplier collaboration, field deployments, and hardware debugging. The role requires advanced analog, power electronics, high-speed digital, signal integrity, EMI, manufacturability, and reliability expertise, along with mentoring responsibilities and occasional customer-site travel.

Design and develop PCB assemblies and electronic subsystems using Altium Designer, producing schematics, layouts, fabrication documentation, and manufacturing outputs. Support board bring-up, validation, debugging, root-cause analysis, and manufacturing transition. Apply DFM, DFT, and reliability principles while maintaining engineering documentation and owning electrical subsystems from concept through production support. Collaborate with software, mechanical, manufacturing, product, and supply chain teams in office and manufacturing environments.