Top Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Develop native Kotlin Android applications for real-time autonomous anti-drone weapon systems. Build Jetpack Compose interfaces for tablets and embedded devices, integrate REST APIs and WebSockets, optimize responsiveness and latency, support joystick input and targeting overlays, and collaborate with backend, product, and UX teams. Contribute to architecture, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and performance improvements.

Develop real-time C++ firmware and electrical systems for autonomous defense applications. Design and review schematics, integrate microcontrollers with sensors and actuators, and build simulations, unit tests, system tests, SIL/HIL testing, and CI validation. Debug and optimize embedded software and electronics in laboratory and field environments, while documenting designs and ensuring reliable, military-grade performance.

Define and manage system-level requirements, verification plans, and tradeoffs for autonomous weapon platforms. Work cross-functionally to ensure integration, traceability, verification closure, and technical risk mitigation across hardware and software.

Design and document wire harnesses and cable assemblies, integrate sensors, power, and actuators across electromechanical systems, support prototype bring-up and debugging, collaborate with mechanical and firmware teams, and validate harness reliability for production and field use.

Design and implement high-performance embedded motor-control firmware (C/C++) for BLDC/PMSM motors using deterministic control loops (PID, FOC). Debug motor control hardware, validate performance with lab equipment, optimize for latency and reliability, and collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and systems teams for hardware integration and field testing.

Define and execute system-level reliability and risk-based verification for autonomous weapon platforms. Plan and analyze environmental and performance tests, identify failure modes, lead root-cause investigations across hardware/software interfaces, track reliability growth, support requirements verification, and drive corrective actions and safety-informed system improvements.

Develop embedded C/C++ firmware for digital control of power electronics (DC-DC converters, voltage regulation, power distribution). Use SPICE and MATLAB/Simulink for modeling and validation, collaborate on hardware bring-up and lab debugging, and optimize efficiency, stability, and thermal performance through firmware and control algorithm improvements.

Design and execute system-level test plans for autonomous weapon platforms, run integrated hardware/software evaluations, capture and post-process data, debug and isolate faults, improve test procedures and instrumentation, and produce defensible evidence packages to support requirement closure.

Lead and scale a manufacturing engineering team to design, build, and optimize production lines for ruggedized autonomous defense systems. Drive Lean and DFM initiatives, translate designs into SOPs, select manufacturing hardware, and manage the roadmap from prototype to full-scale deployment.

Hands-on role integrating electrical subsystems, performing system bring-up, debugging Linux and STM32 firmware, diagnosing signal and power issues with lab instrumentation, developing and executing test procedures, supporting field testing, building test fixtures and automation, and validating hardware revisions.