Jobs at XTEND (xtend.me)

Develop and grow XTEND’s Israeli homeland security market by generating leads, conducting demonstrations and pilots, managing sales cycles, preparing proposals, participating in tenders, closing deals, and building partnerships with integrators, security providers, and distributors. The role targets municipalities, police, fire and rescue services, and commercial organizations, while collaborating with product and technical teams to deliver tailored drone-based security solutions.

Develop and maintain high-performance C++ backend software for real-time autonomous drone and mission-critical systems. Responsibilities include designing scalable system components, integrating APIs, participating in architecture and system integration, optimizing performance and reliability, conducting code reviews, and debugging production systems. The role collaborates across robotics and autonomy disciplines and supports full software lifecycle ownership.

Manage multidisciplinary drone programs from kickoff through delivery, ensuring scope, timelines, budgets, compliance, and customer satisfaction. Lead cross-functional teams, government contract preparation and execution, risk mitigation, stakeholder reporting, and integration of mechanical, electronic, software, and algorithmic systems. The role is onsite in the Tampa area and requires up to 10% travel.

Leads development of complex airborne and UAV systems, including requirements definition, integration planning, system-level testing, design validation, documentation, customer implementation, lifecycle support, and project reporting. Collaborates across engineering, R&D, PMO, and business teams to deliver systems from proof of concept through production, upgrades, service support, and end of life.

Lead the C-UAS product line, focusing on strategic leadership, market penetration, and managing product lifecycles in a cross-functional setting.

The Financial Controller owns accounting operations, financial close, reporting, budgeting support, cash-flow tracking, consolidation, reconciliations, internal controls, and financial policies in a multi-entity environment. The role oversees AP, AR, payroll accounting, and general ledger activities; supports audits, tax, banking, revenue recognition, pricing, and contracts; and improves financial systems and ERP processes while ensuring US GAAP compliance.

Leads international defense business development and sales from market entry and lead generation through contract closure. Builds pipelines, develops strategic relationships, manages complex procurement processes, responds to RFIs and RFPs, negotiates commercial terms, and closes large defense contracts. Works with government agencies, armed forces, defense ministries, prime contractors, and industry partners while collaborating internally across product, engineering, operations, legal, finance, and program teams. Requires substantial international travel and customer-facing engagement.

Manage full-cycle recruiting and serve as an HR Business Partner for the Tampa site. Partner with managers, coach employees, support performance and compensation processes, drive engagement and culture, guide workforce planning, maintain compliant HR operations, and provide regional support to other sites. The role requires independent execution in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment and includes approximately 30% regional travel.

Supports day-to-day production and assembly operations for complex electro-mechanical systems. Designs jigs and fixtures, develops illustrated work instructions, troubleshoots production issues, performs root cause analysis, leads corrective actions, and drives continuous process improvement. Trains operators, maintains manufacturing documentation, and collaborates with Production, NPI, Quality, Process Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to improve manufacturability, efficiency, quality, cycle time, and ergonomics.

Manage XTEND’s investor relations function as it transitions to a NYSE-listed company. Own quarterly earnings, investor presentations, NDRs, conferences, analyst and shareholder relationships, market intelligence, disclosure compliance, and investor communications. Partner with the CFO, CEO, Legal, FP&A, Marketing, and external IR advisors on Regulation FD, SEC disclosures, proxy materials, capital markets activity, and the company’s investment narrative.

Support SEC reporting, SOX controls, corporate governance, board and committee matters, subsidiary governance, equity plans, commercial agreements, and other legal matters for a global NYSE-listed defense technology company. The role works closely with the General Counsel, management, finance, outside counsel, trustees, and transfer agents.

The Embedded Software Engineer develops and maintains firmware for autonomous drone systems, focusing on low-level driver development and hardware/software integration.

Lead growth into the US DoD market by creating markets, forming strategic partnerships, shaping and capturing opportunities, aligning tech roadmaps with customer missions, supporting bids with product/CTO, and managing pipeline and market intelligence.

Lead DoD-targeted sales by identifying opportunities, generating qualified leads, building pipelines, drafting proposals, advising capture and Price-to-Win, forecasting sales, and providing market feedback to optimize strategy.

Responsible for daily bookkeeping tasks including AP, AR, GL entries, supplier and customer invoicing, reconciliations, and financial reporting.

Lead XTEND's defense business development in Israel: deliver demos and PoCs, define tailored hardware/software solutions, support RFPs and proposals, collaborate with sales and technical teams, run workshops, monitor competitors, and build customer relationships to drive adoption and satisfaction.

Design and implement guidance and motion-planning algorithms for autonomous drones, define mission-level behaviors, integrate with embedded and perception teams, handle edge cases, and deploy resilient real-world flight systems.