- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- MoorparkCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Aug 31, 2026
- Salary
- $122,500–$187,000 a year
Sr. Product Engineer
Job description
As a Sr. Product Engineer at AeroVironment, one helps lead the sustaining engineering support for UAV systems for military 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.
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Job responsibilities
- Manages product line configuration and changing orders in Oracle PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system
- Understands product design and features, be familiar with the manufacturing process
- Understands customer performance and configuration requirements for product
- Acts as the technical point of contact for ongoing support and change initiation, including managing manufacturing and customer issues escalated to engineering
- Supports and assists in proposal & report writing, review of contracts for production orders
- Help lead the transition of new products and product variants into production
- Assists in leading 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
- Leads 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
- 8 - 12 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…
- Experienced using configuration management principles
- Demonstrated knowledge of general Engineering fundamentals, mathematics, physics, material properties, electronics, systems, software
- Experience with understanding requirements for building production assemblies, including documentation for use on production floor
- Demonstrated experience integrating across technical disciplines and organizations, including program management, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, suppliers and customers
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