As an R&D Integrator at XTEND, you will be part of the R&D Team responsible for the integration, maintenance, and support of all company products, including R&D platforms and prototype systems.
This is a diverse and highly engaging role that involves hands-on mechanical, electrical, and software work in the lab, while supporting integration processes across multiple engineering and cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assembly, integration, and maintenance of drone systems and related platforms
- Building, integrating, and maintaining prototypes and experimental systems
- Supporting engineering teams with prototype development, system testing, and integration activities
- Conducting lab tests, QC procedures, and troubleshooting
- Maintaining an organized, safe, and efficient lab environment
- Executing integration workflows between hardware, electronics, and software components
Technical expertise in electronic components, soldering, wiring, and mechanical assembly
- Hands-on experience in lab work, system integration, system testing, and quality control
- Proven experience with building and/or flying drones or other RC products
- familiarity with PDM and Altium
- English proficiency – reading, writing, and speaking
Bonus / Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Linux-based systems – basic operation and understanding
- Experience using Priority or similar task/project management tools
- Familiarity with RF systems and communication components
- Experience working with composite materials
- Background in elite IDF technology or intelligence units, including Unit 81, Unit Yiftach, or Lehavim program.
- Familiar with flight control firmware such as betaflight or ardupilot.
Skills Required
- Technical expertise in electronic components, soldering, wiring, and mechanical assembly
- Hands-on experience in lab work, system integration, system testing, and quality control
- Proven experience with building and/or flying drones or other RC products
- Familiarity with PDM and Altium
- English proficiency - reading, writing, and speaking
What We Do
XTEND provides revolutionary human-guided autonomous machine systems that enable any operator to perform extremely accurate maneuvers and actions, in any environment with minimal training. The company's patented XOS operating system fuses the best of human intelligence and machine autonomy to enhance the operator's abilities, and simultaneously reduce the need for physical confrontation, thereby minimizing casualties and injuries. Hundreds of XTEND's systems are already operationally deployed worldwide, and the company is continuously developing its XOS operating system and platforms to deliver the future of human-machine teaming to defense, public safety, and security professionals worldwide.
