AeroVironment

People Operations

• Partner with the business to understand people and organizational strategy needs and design and execute solutions
• Advise on organizational design, workforce planning, and talent optimization
• Lead performance management processes, including goal setting, reviews, and calibration
• Identify high-potential talent and support succession planning
• Coach leaders on employee engagement, performance, leadership effectiveness, and communication
• Guide employee relations matters and conduct investigations
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and government contracting requirements, including ITAR
• Analyze workforce data and trends to inform decision-making and proactive planning
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring strategies and workforce planning
• Collaborate with Total Rewards on salary planning, promotions, and equity reviews
• Lead employee engagement initiatives and action planning based on survey results
• Drive communication and change management efforts, including business transformations and M&A integration
• Lead and execute cross-functional People & Culture initiatives and projects
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, and milestones; track progress and manage risks
• Partner with P&C, Legal, Finance, IT, and business leaders on core people processes
• Use HR systems such as Workday for data-driven decision-making and process improvement
• Manage multiple priorities and perform other duties as assigned

People & Culture Business Partner

Business Development Rep

• Oversee execution of the entire business development and proposal processes, ensuring adherence to requirements
• Lead identification and creation of new business opportunities within and outside the Continental U.S.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customers at all levels of their organizations
• Develop and implement capture strategies with compelling win strategies for new business opportunities
• Conduct market research to assess the size and potential value of opportunities
• Conduct competitive assessments to understand the strengths and weaknesses of AeroVironment solutions
• Engage in significant travel to build and maintain customer relationships and pursue business opportunities
• Communicate regularly with management and internal stakeholders to align on customer requirements and feedback
• Collaborate with TMS leadership and engineering to identify technology needs and connect them with potential funding sources
• Establish partnerships with other companies to pursue specific opportunities and enhance AeroVironment product offerings
• Support development of marketing collateral with the marketing team
• Execute other duties as assigned

Business Development Director – Commercial

Security Engineer

• Support the enterprise Vulnerability Management program across workstations, servers, cloud workloads, and other infrastructure
• Identify, analyze, validate, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities across the enterprise
• Administer, configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize the Tanium platform and modules
• Develop Tanium sensors, questions, packages, actions, computer groups, dashboards, and reports
• Administer and optimize Tanium Comply for vulnerability and configuration assessment
• Configure vulnerability assessments and compliance scans
• Support patch and vulnerability remediation using Tanium Patch and Deploy or integrated endpoint-management technologies
• Develop patch deployment groups and maintenance windows
• Track patch deployment status, failures, exceptions, and remediation progress
• Maintain endpoint asset visibility and identify unmanaged, stale, duplicate, or non-compliant devices
• Develop scripts and automation using PowerShell, Python, APIs, or similar technologies
• Integrate Tanium with SIEM/XDR, vulnerability management, ITSM, CMDB, and other enterprise security platforms
• Support Cybersecurity Operations during vulnerability-related incidents and emerging threats
• Query enterprise endpoints during incident investigations and support emergency containment or remediation
• Develop vulnerability dashboards, metrics, KPIs, executive reporting, and actionable security information
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity Operations, IT Infrastructure, application owners, cloud teams, system owners, and business stakeholders

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Electrical Engineer

• Design, develop and maintain electrical control systems and/or components to required specifications
• Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability
• Conduct general engineering and design of electronic systems on small unmanned aircraft vehicles
• Perform detailed design, documentation and testing of electronic and mechanical components, equipment and subsystems
• Operate computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment
• Perform electronic engineering support activities on R&D projects
• Coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation and testing activities
• Inspect completed installations and observe operations for conformance to design, equipment and safety standards
• Work with avionics, embedded systems and Radio Frequency links; support Flight Test operations as needed
• Troubleshoot complex systems and document designs with engineering drawings and written descriptions
• Perform design and analysis tasks and contribute to budgets and cost estimates
• Assess root causes, research and re-engineer alternate solutions, and contribute to product sustainability and reliability
• Make complex design decisions and decisions affecting project costs and schedules
• Provide technical supervision across disciplines and lead a small team or project

Senior Electrical Engineer

Strategy

• Lead complex, cross-functional enterprise initiatives involving multiple organizations, business functions, technologies, processes, and executive stakeholders
• Shape emerging enterprise priorities into executable initiatives
• Translate strategic and executive objectives into integrated plans, milestones, decision points, ownership structures, and measurable success criteria
• Maintain accountability for the integrated health and progress of assigned initiatives
• Establish and manage initiative governance, operating cadence, schedules, workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and escalation paths
• Create enterprise-level visibility into progress, tradeoffs, resource constraints, dependencies, risks, and decisions requiring leadership action
• Provide executive decision support through reporting, synthesis, options and tradeoffs, and recommendations
• Establish and track measures of success across strategic, operational, financial, technology, compliance, adoption, and other business outcomes
• Incorporate organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, adoption, and transition-to-operations considerations
• Partner with functional, technical, and project/program management organizations
• Identify and resolve cross-functional barriers and ensure timely escalation and follow-through
• Develop and apply scalable enterprise execution practices, tools, and operating models
• Lead, mentor, coordinate, or manage a small team of program/project management professionals

Director, Enterprise Execution – Strategic Initiatives

Manager

• Ensure DBT Infrastructure systems supporting business operations function efficiently
• Supervise analysts and engineers supporting and developing specific platforms
• Unify communications, messaging, and identity toward a seamless user experience
• Provide assistance to the Service Desk team as an escalation point supporting the ITIL model
• Manage team members and their responsibilities
• Provide high-quality, responsive, and consistent resolutions to IT incidents
• Administer Windows and Linux server deployments
• Manage infrastructure incident-support queue activities on a day-to-day operational basis
• Manage on-premises infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, VMware, firewalls, and routing
• Manage identity and user-management solutions provided by Azure or third parties
• Own and review third-party product invoicing and ensure costs match business expectations
• Drive third-party product service-level agreements to ensure services meet business requirements and vendor contracts
• Perform other duties as assigned

Infrastructure Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop software supporting AV’s vision-based navigation, autonomy, cooperative behaviors, and mission systems technology roadmap
• Drive technical direction and architectural decisions across the Kinesis ecosystem
• Design, implement, and integrate systems in C++ and Kotlin
• Develop cross-platform applications for Android, Linux, and Windows to control robotic platforms
• Design SDK interfaces for internal and external integration with AV systems
• Serve as a technical lead for customer programs
• Perform hands-on field testing with robots to validate new features
• Deliver work on time according to agreed completion dates and project schedule and budget
• Support and derive algorithm design from detailed software requirements
• Work closely with multiple teams of software developers, reusing developed software to support different programs
• Operate in a continuous learning environment and provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers
• Work on significant and unique issues requiring evaluation of intangible factors
• Independently determine methods and procedures for new or special assignments
• Travel occasionally for customer or testing events
• Perform other duties as assigned

Principal Software Engineer

Software Engineer

• Support the design and operation of manufacturing systems for AeroVironment unmanned air vehicles
• Assist in analyzing production processes and data
• Help optimize manufacturing workflows and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles
• Support and improve manufacturing processes with a focus on efficiency and quality
• Analyze production yields, capacity, cost, and process capability to identify improvement opportunities
• Support establishment and documentation of standard work hours, sequences, and assembly procedures
• Generate and update work instructions and manufacturing process documentation
• Participate in root cause analysis and problem-solving activities involving materials, design, equipment, and personnel
• Assist with manufacturing capacity planning and factory layout design
• Support cost estimation for new tooling, fixtures, and production equipment
• Collaborate with design engineering teams on Design for Manufacturing and reliability analysis
• Participate in cross-functional improvement projects with engineering and suppliers
• Support DFMEA and PFMEA activities
• Provide manufacturing input on design concepts and specifications
• Support production floor assembly and integration activities
• Perform other duties as assigned

Manufacturing Engineering Intern

Mechanical Engineer

• Assist in designing mechanical components and systems, including airframes, payload enclosures, ground equipment, launch systems, and electro-mechanical assemblies
• Create and modify 3D CAD models and assemblies using SolidWorks
• Support simulation and analysis tasks using SolidWorks Simulation or ANSYS
• Participate in prototype fabrication, assembly, and testing using in-house tools and rapid prototyping methods such as 3D printing
• Help generate technical drawings and bills of materials according to industry drafting standards
• Collaborate with engineers on design reviews, testing activities, and mechanical-system integration
• Contribute to documentation and reporting of design progress and test results
• Learn and assist with configuration control and engineering change processes
• Perform other assigned tasks supporting ongoing development efforts

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Program Manager

• Report to a Division Director
• Provide technical, managerial, and administrative resources to execute and fulfill contract requirements
• Support approved work beyond the initial contract scope
• Document, control, and manage Government furnished equipment (GFE), Government furnished property (GFP), and Contractor acquired property (CAP)
• Manage contract budgets
• Manage resources
• Monitor and control costs
• Ensure contract compliance
• Interact frequently with contract, technical, and Government personnel to maintain schedules

• Apply engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair, and test tools, engines, machines, and mechanically functioning equipment
• Lead and support mechanical design, testing, and production of electrical machines
• Design electronics packaging for high-altitude aerospace applications
• Lead or support mechanical packaging development for electronic equipment meeting mass, volume, thermal, and vibration requirements
• Manage mid-size development projects outsourced to subcontractors
• Lead or support thermal, structural, dynamic, and fluid-flow analysis for electronics equipment
• Lead testing and data collection in laboratory and field environments
• Model mechanical devices and select appropriate materials
• Perform stress, fatigue, and thermal analyses; select bonding materials
• Develop mechanical drawings and specify dimensional tolerances
• Develop assembly instructions, test plans, and test procedures
• Coordinate activities of other personnel when serving as Team Lead
• Execute assignments according to schedules, milestones, and available resources

Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain electrical control systems and components for economy, safety, reliability, quality, and sustainability
• Select components and equipment based on specifications and reliability analysis
• Conduct engineering and design of electronic systems for unmanned aircraft vehicles
• Perform detailed design, documentation, testing, and troubleshooting of electronic and mechanical components, equipment, and subsystems
• Provide electronic engineering support for R&D projects
• Coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities
• Inspect completed installations and observe operations for design, equipment, and safety compliance
• Work with avionics, embedded systems, and RF links; support flight test operations as needed
• Document designs with engineering drawings and written descriptions
• Perform design and analysis tasks and contribute to budgets and cost estimates
• Assess root causes of critical issues and propose alternate solutions through research and re-engineering
• Make complex design decisions to meet requirements and impact project costs and schedules
• Provide technical supervision across disciplines and lead a small team or project
• May supervise the activities of others

Systems Engineer

• Work with the Design team to develop innovative unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications
• Interact with Controls Engineers to allocate requirements and develop architectures that drive simulation models
• Contribute across requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, detailed design, validation, and verification testing
• Manage requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle
• Provide weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down
• Allocate requirements to subsystems and coordinate engineering activities
• Evaluate system performance thresholds and provide direction
• Develop instrumented flight test vectors and data acquisition with Senior Staff Engineers
• Provide input for model development and simulation analysis
• Review and interpret customer specifications
• Identify, analyze, and resolve system design weaknesses
• Contribute to architectures used across multiple products or systems
• Select methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel as Team Lead
• Develop systems test plans, procedures, and reports
• Write Systems Safety protocols and ensure personnel safety during field testing

Senior Systems Engineer

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead functional execution of enterprise-wide finance systems initiatives, primarily Oracle Fusion ERP optimization and implementation
• Oversee production support for Oracle Fusion, EPM, Apex, and other finance applications
• Lead Oracle Fusion and finance systems implementation projects across deployment phases and geographies
• Define business requirements and functional specifications for Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Quote to Cash, and Project to Close workstreams
• Design end-to-end business processes, system workflows, and approval hierarchies aligned with business needs and SOX controls
• Coordinate with IT Infrastructure on technical architecture, integrations, and system performance
• Own finance system integration requirements for Salesforce CRM, Workday HRIS, payment systems, subsidiary ledgers, and reporting tools
• Provide functional leadership for Oracle EPM Cloud initiatives and support Apex application rollouts
• Lead or contribute to finance transformation projects, including project accounting and audit documentation
• Supervise and mentor the Finance Systems team
• Manage Oracle and implementation partner consultants and coordinate cross-functional workstreams
• Document current-state processes, identify gaps, and design future-state Oracle Fusion workflows
• Establish functional governance for system configuration changes and maintain process and configuration documentation
• Own end-to-end testing strategy, test scripts, tester assignments, defect resolution, and sign-off
• Design and deliver end-user training programs and coordinate change management activities
• Identify Oracle Fusion feature and quarterly update opportunities for continuous improvement
• Partner with Data/AI teams on intelligent automation, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and self-service reporting
• Use LLMs for requirements documentation, process analysis, and solution research
• Support AI agent use-case identification, prompt engineering, validation, and emerging AI capability evaluation

Senior Manager, Finance Systems

• Provide hands-on functional support for production finance systems including Oracle Fusion, EPM, Apex, and other applications
• Execute Oracle Fusion ERP and finance systems implementation activities across Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Quote to Cash, and Project to Close workstreams
• Document business processes, system workflows, functional specifications, configuration decisions, business rules, and troubleshooting guides
• Configure and support finance system structures including charts of accounts, calendars, ledgers, business units, payment terms, tax rules, and approval hierarchies
• Partner with IT Infrastructure on integration testing for Salesforce CRM, Workday HRIS, and third-party applications
• Troubleshoot functional issues and coordinate with Oracle support on complex problems
• Support Oracle EPM Cloud and Apex application rollouts, including testing, user setup, dimension maintenance, training, and troubleshooting
• Coordinate integrations between Oracle Fusion, EPM, and Apex, ensuring data accuracy and process alignment
• Develop test scripts and coordinate unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing
• Manage tester recruitment, sandbox setup, test data preparation, stand-ups, defect tracking, test results, and UAT sign-offs
• Design role-based training curricula and create user guides, quick reference cards, video tutorials, sandbox exercises, and FAQs
• Deliver virtual and in-person training, train-the-trainer sessions, and post-training office hours
• Provide hypercare support during the first 90 days after implementation, including extended hours and weekend availability
• Monitor usage patterns, adoption metrics, and support tickets to identify training gaps
• Serve as a trusted functional advisor to business stakeholders on Oracle Fusion capabilities and best practices
• Identify process improvement, automation, and quarterly-update adoption opportunities
• Use GPT, Claude, and Gemini to create test scripts, training materials, documentation, and process guides
• Collaborate with the Senior Data & AI Analyst to validate AI agent outputs and support AI-enhanced workflow deployment

People & Culture Business Partner

Business Development Director – Commercial

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Director, Enterprise Execution – Strategic Initiatives

Infrastructure Manager

Principal Software Engineer

Manufacturing Engineering Intern

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Program Manager

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Manager, Finance Systems

Lead Analyst, Finance Systems