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AeroVironment

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
MelbourneFloridaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Jun 29, 2026
Salary
$74,500–$113,500 a year
Full-time

Product Engineer II

Job description

As a Product Engineer II at AeroVironment, one sustains engineering support for UAV systems and commercial applications. Includes design modifications of structural components, electro-mechanical assemblies, payloads, ground equipment, launching systems, flight control actuators, prototype hardware development, performing design verification testing, and configuration management of products.

AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.

We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber.

Job responsibilities

  • Sustains engineering support related to a product line
  • Manages product line configuration and change orders in Agile PLM system
  • Understands product design and features, be familiar with the manufacturing process. Understands customer performance and configuration requirements for product
  • Acts as a technical point of contact for ongoing support and change initiation, including managing manufacturing and customer issues escalated to engineering
  • Assists in proposal & report writing, review of contracts for production orders
  • Helps coordinate the transition for new products and product variants into production
  • Coordinates the release and update of engineering design documentation, operator manuals, bill of materials, manufacturing procedures, product acceptance test procedures, and production tooling and test equipment
  • Coordinates development, testing and release of product improvements and variants in cooperation with product line manager, design engineers and project managers

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field of study is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • Lean Six Sigma experience or Green Belt certification
  • 2 - 5 years of related experience in a similar role, including experience in engineering design. environment, including support of products in production
  • Experience with unmanned air vehicles plus RF, digital, and communications electronics design Electronics manufacturing troubleshooting PCB layout, schematics and assembly's Design/drafting/CAD (Altium), including ASME…
  • Ability to solve basic structural dynamics problems
  • Strong understanding of configuration management principles
  • Understand General Engineering fundamentals, mathematics, physics, material properties, electronics, systems, software
  • Understand requirements for building production assemblies, including documentation for use on production floor

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