Manufacturing Engineer

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia DroneShield Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world's most challenging technical problems in the Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems. Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters in Pyrmont, Sydney. There are approximately 350 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 400 staff by end of 2025. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Denmark, Germany and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

About the role

DroneShield is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Sydney, NSW.

The position will report to the Production Automation Lead.

This role will be responsible for the design and development of manufacturing test systems and rigs for DroneShield products. The rigs this engineer develops will be used for product testing on the DroneShield production floor and by contract manufacturers around the world.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

  • Develop production test rigs that increase production speed, accuracy and test coverage
  • Work closely with other teams to understand product testing requirements and interfaces
  • Develop system requirements and tests to validate those requirements
  • Manage project plans and timelines to keep development on track
  • Document designs to ensure test rigs can be scaled and maintained
  • Communicate with test equipment vendors to obtain quotes, support and technical information
  • Occasional travel interstate and overseas may be required

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

  • Degree in Software Development, Engineering or relevant experience required
  • Experience developing manufacturing systems and rigs preferred
  • Experienced in Python required
  • Experience unit testing and use of CI/CD pipelines required
  • Experience with VISA communications to instrumentation required
  • SolidWorks experience favourable (to develop rigs that interact with devices under test physically as well as digitally)
  • Understanding of RF and experience with RF test equipment favourable
  • Suitable to hold a security clearance if required

Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.

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