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Owns electronics quality across drone production, including PCBAs, soldering, harnesses, cables, and battery packs. Leads defect containment, MRB, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, inspection and test strategy, SPC metrics, design-for-quality activities, ESD controls, IPC certification, and quality reviews. Partners with manufacturing, engineering, and software teams while mentoring quality personnel and supporting production scale-up.

Own electronics build quality across PCBAs, harnesses, cables, and battery packs in a high-volume defense manufacturing environment. Investigate defects, contain suspect products, lead root-cause and corrective-action efforts, monitor manufacturing quality metrics, create inspection plans, support first article inspections, improve in-line controls, certify inspectors, and maintain ESD controls. The role requires electronics manufacturing quality experience, SMT and post-SMT process knowledge, and proficiency with SQL and Python for production data analysis.

Owns terminal guidance and control paths for unmanned aircraft, including guidance laws, aimpoint commands, acceleration management, flight-control interfaces, and engagement accuracy against maneuvering targets. Develops and deploys C++ and Python software to flight vehicles, performs state estimation and sensor fusion, analyzes flight-test data, and participates in test planning, range operations, instrumentation, and post-test reviews.

Owns the end-to-end autonomy data platform, including recovering and uploading flight data, processing synchronized sensor and video streams, designing catalogs and storage, building query and replay systems, and creating versioned datasets with lineage. The role requires operating scalable cloud infrastructure, batch processing pipelines, databases, and internal tooling for robotics and machine learning workflows.

Develops end-to-end computer vision and perception software for unmanned aircraft, including target detection, classification, tracking, aimpoint selection, EO/IR imagery, and embedded deployment. Owns accuracy-latency tradeoffs, evaluation against flight data, sensor integration, regression testing, and perception interfaces. Provides senior technical design and code review while supporting mission-critical target discrimination and operator-authorized engagement workflows.

Build and manage the company’s ICFR and SOX program, including scoping, risk assessment, control design, documentation, testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation, and ITGC coordination. Partner with process owners and third-party providers, oversee SOX readiness for an IPO or public-company transition, and serve as the primary controls liaison to external auditors, executives, the CFO, and Audit Committee.

Own month-end close, AP and AR cycles, financial reconciliations, audit support, SOX controls, process automation, and accounting process improvements. Partner with FP&A, Operations, and Supply Chain on systems work and analysis while helping scale accounting infrastructure. The role requires strong US GAAP knowledge, ERP and advanced Excel experience, and the ability to support IPO readiness and public-company reporting processes.

Own end-to-end connectivity architecture for FPV drones, ground stations, radios, antennas, embedded systems, video links, and command-and-control systems. Lead wireless architecture, RF tradeoffs, platform integration, technical roadmaps, risk assessment, validation, and deployment decisions. Collaborate across electrical, embedded, mechanical, manufacturing, test, product, and leadership teams while mentoring senior technical contributors and shaping complex systems from concept through production readiness.

Coordinates customer orders from receipt through fulfillment, including sales order entry, purchase order and contract review, order changes, delivery tracking, documentation, and customer updates. The role maintains accurate order records, verifies FAR/DFARS requirements, monitors fulfillment dependencies, resolves discrepancies, and coordinates across sales, production, supply chain, program management, and finance. It also supports process improvement, reporting, workflows, and internal controls as order volume grows.

Leads strategic sourcing and supplier quality for a growing defense technology supply base. Owns category strategy, supplier relationships, qualification, audits, scorecards, corrective actions, quality KPIs, risk mitigation, dual sourcing, supply continuity, and commercial negotiations. Manages supplier quality engineers and partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and supply chain teams to improve cost, delivery, compliance, and supplier performance.