Associate Electronics Engineer (AU) at DroneShield Group Pty Ltd – Sydney, New South Wales

Work with cutting edge AI 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 rapidly growing counter-drone sector.

Our customers operate in some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world, including military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement. Protecting airspace in these settings requires technology that performs under pressure and teams that understand what’s at stake. At DroneShield, employees work at the leading edge of counter-drone innovation, helping to address real-world security challenges as drone threats continue to evolve globally.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, now part of the ASX200 index, DroneShield is experiencing a period of hypergrowth. Revenue has surged from A$57 million in 2024 to over A$217 million in 2025, representing growth of more than 400% year-on-year, with record profitability and cashflow. The total addressable global market for counter-drone is assessed at approximately $100 billion, and is currently at the nascent stage with much of the growth still to come, with DroneShield well positioned as a global market leader, and the only public listed pure-play business in this sector.

The company has grown from 11 employees in 2017 to over 450 staff globally today, and is on track to reach around 550 by the end of 2026. This expansion includes investment of over A$50 million annually in R&D, a global pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and continuous scaling of production capacity to meet accelerating demand.

The role is based at DroneShield’s central Sydney headquarters. Overseas on-the-ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries worldwide.

About the role

DroneShield is seeking an Associate Electronics Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Sydney, Australia. The position will report to the Electronics Team lead in Embedded Systems.

The Embedded Systems Team is focused on providing fully operational and qualified modular devices to enable new product development of high-end RF based sensors and effectors. These modules are re-used across various product configurations including man-portable, vehicle mounted and fixed site. Key technical challenges for the electronics aspect of these modules include the design of complex wide-band RF circuitry, high speed digital interface and high-power radio frequency output. DroneShield designs and builds the full signal chain from signal generation to antenna.

Expectations of this role in the Electronics Team will be focused on PCBA design and validation of various modules, with an overall objective of providing confidence in product integrations and delivery to the customer. This will include electronic component selection, SCH/PCB design for reliable manufacturing, validation test plan development and execution, manufacturing test procedure development and hardware issue root-case analysis and resolution. More detail can be found below.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

• Collaborate on the design of new products with other engineers and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team. Consistently review and improve existing product lines, refining for quality and performance.
• Liaise with suppliers to support the procurement process and enforce quality control procedures.
• Building, prototyping, and testing new/existing products.
• Employing sound industry practices for documentation and QC.
• Self-managing workload (prioritisation) and workflow to meet key business objectives.
• Schematic and PCB design using Altium, including maintenance of component database and document templates.
• Hardware design for manufacturing, EMC and reliability.
• Manufacturing test specification design and support for production setup & debugging.
• Hardware design validation planning and execution on both a modular and system level.
• Hardware laboratory equipment organisation and maintenance.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• BS degree in Electronics Engineering, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 1 years experience in hardware design, test and production support.
• Practical experience using benchtop test equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal generators.
• Practical experience soldering and rework of fine pitch components including 0603 components or below.
• Schematic and PCB design using Altium.
• Switch-mode power supply design experience.
• Experience with communication protocols (I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, etc).
• Hardware design principles for battery power device applications.
• Theoretical and practical understanding of mixed analog and digital system layout techniques.

Desirable experiences and skills

• Hardware design with integrated antennas.
• Programming experience (Python preferable)
• Electronics Simulation skills (Spice, FEA, etc)
• Practical experience with rework of very fine pitch components of 0201 or 0.5mm pitch QFNs
• Practical experience using spectrum analysers.
• Design for receiver sensitivity principles such as cascaded noise figure, dynamic range, noise floor degradation, etc.
• RF filter specification and selection. Design experience is desirable.
• Working knowledge of Antennas. · Analog hardware design theory and experience. Eg: Specifying filters, working with low signal strength and achieving stable measurements in a mixed analog and digital design.
• Theoretical and practical understanding of PCB layout techniques for high-speed digital and RF circuitry.
• Familiarity of applicable global and local radio standards for intentional or unintentional radiators.
• Familiarity with test equipment for validation of high-speed digital and RF interfaces

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