Jobs at Performance Drone Works

Own the automation roadmap for QGroundControl, controller software, and ground-side tools. Design and maintain Python-based test frameworks and regression suites for Qt/QML applications across Linux and Android. Automate application, API, command-line, hardware, and communications workflows; integrate tests into CI/CD; investigate failures; maintain traceability and release-readiness reporting; and mentor engineers. The role supports UAV software quality through automated validation, diagnostic analysis, and cross-functional defect resolution.

Owns the automation roadmap for QGroundControl, controller software, and ground-side tools. Designs and maintains automated test frameworks for Qt/QML applications across Linux and Android, validates application and device workflows, integrates tests into CI/CD, investigates failures, maintains traceability, and mentors engineers. The role partners with development and SQA teams to improve testability, identify quality risks, and support release readiness for tactical robotic systems.

Performs hands-on manual functional, integration, and regression testing of UAS, controller software, communications, and integrated hardware. Executes test procedures, documents results and diagnostic evidence, reports reproducible defects, supports investigations, verifies fixes, updates test cases, and maintains test equipment and configurations. Collaborates with software, engineering, production, and flight-test teams to support reliable product releases.

Designs and validates electrical hardware for tactical sUAS systems. Responsibilities include schematic and PCB layout design and review, architecture and parts selection, high-speed and high-power circuit development, test planning, fixture creation, engineering reporting, cost analysis, and collaboration across hardware, software, manufacturing, and stakeholder teams.

Leads complex cross-functional tactical robotics development programs from concept through integration, verification, validation, and production transition. Owns schedules, costs, scope, risks, change control, readiness assessments, and program metrics while coordinating internal teams and external design partners. The role requires experience with multidisciplinary hardware and software programs in engineering-intensive industries such as aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems, plus eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.

Own technical strategy and production-readiness standards for complex hardware introductions. Lead manufacturability, pilot builds, process development, tooling, testing, yield improvement, root-cause analysis, and production stabilization. Establish NPI gates, metrics, documentation, and scalable manufacturing practices while coordinating Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and suppliers. Mentor engineers and influence product architecture and manufacturing decisions across programs.

Leads new product introduction from concept review through production handoff. Owns manufacturability, engineering readiness, documentation, prototype and pilot builds, launch yield, process risk, corrective actions, and supplier risk mitigation. Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and suppliers to deliver scalable production, track readiness, and improve NPI processes. The role supports complex electromechanical hardware in office, laboratory, and manufacturing environments.

Designs and maintains technical training curricula for unmanned aircraft systems, payloads, software, and related technologies. Develops lesson plans, instructor and student guides, presentations, exercises, assessments, job aids, and eLearning. Collaborates with engineers and subject-matter experts to translate complex technical information into effective learning experiences. Ensures materials reflect product updates, safety requirements, and operating procedures, while continuously improving curriculum through feedback and assessments. The role supports training delivery, product launches, customer sites, and field exercises.

Leads the development, standardization, delivery, and continuous improvement of sUAS training programs. Oversees instructional designers and curriculum developers, establishes training architecture and standards, evaluates instructors, manages curriculum lifecycle, supports product training launches, conducts audits and validations, and delivers technical and operational instruction across classroom, manufacturing, flight-line, customer, and field environments.

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 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.

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.