Jobs at Zone 5 Technologies

Leads reliability and maintainability activities across unmanned aircraft product lifecycles. Develops R&M architectures, reliability predictions, FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, reliability block diagrams, FRACAS processes, test plans, and reliability growth programs. Conducts failure investigations, corrective actions, maintenance analyses, and R&M risk mitigation. Presents analyses and compliance status to customers during milestone and design reviews, while ensuring adherence to defense reliability standards.

Supports a Vice President by managing complex calendars, meetings, travel, communications, executive materials, action items, documentation, and confidential information. Coordinates cross-functional workflows, board and investor materials, leadership events, onboarding, and executive operating cadences. The role also improves administrative processes, tracks priorities and deadlines, handles expense reconciliations, and serves as a liaison among executives, employees, customers, partners, and board members.

Develops persuasive proposals for aerospace and defense programs by analyzing solicitations, translating technical information, aligning content with evaluation criteria, and ensuring compliance with proposal requirements. Collaborates with technical, business development, engineering, contracts, finance, manufacturing, and executive teams. Leads proposal sections, reviews, revisions, content libraries, visual aids, and process improvements under tight deadlines while safeguarding proprietary and controlled information.

Creates primary aerodynamic surfaces, detailed composite structures, and accurate 3D aircraft models for prototype and production unmanned aircraft. Develops models from scan data and references, collaborates with engineering and design teams, and produces renderings, animations, visualizations, branding, and presentation materials. Requires deep expertise in Class-A surface modeling, composite detail design, surface continuity, geometry optimization, and aerospace or related industrial design.

Lead system-level loads, structural dynamics, vibration, aeroelastic, and store separation analysis for unmanned aircraft, interceptors, and munitions. Build full-vehicle finite element models, guide ground and flight-test correlation, conduct trade studies, support design decisions, document results, present to customers, and mentor engineers. Requires collaboration across structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, GNC, and systems engineering.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Leads multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization for unmanned aircraft, missiles, interceptors, and munitions. Integrates aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, GNC, CAD, CFD, FEA, and trajectory models into automated optimization workflows. Owns MDAO tool architecture, validation, documentation, and development pipelines; conducts trade studies, correlates models with test data, supports proposals, presents design reviews, and mentors engineers. Requires experience taking MDAO from conceptual sizing through flight testing and fielded hardware.

Leads high-fidelity CFD analysis for missiles, interceptors, munitions, and other high-speed vehicles. Establishes CFD standards, develops meshes and automated HPC workflows, validates simulations against wind tunnel and flight-test data, and integrates aerodynamic databases into vehicle design, GNC, trajectory, and mission models. Mentors engineers, presents findings at design reviews, supports resource planning, and provides technical leadership across complete vehicle programs.

The Platform Engineer will design and implement scalable compute infrastructure for autonomous vehicle simulation, utilizing cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, along with managing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

The DevOps Engineer III enhances software infrastructure for unmanned aircraft systems, focusing on backend integrations, frontend development, CI/CD pipelines, and system monitoring, collaborating with engineering teams.

Lead architecture and implementation of software for autonomous UAS systems; mentor engineers; ensure compliance with aerospace standards; optimize CI/CD pipelines.

Develop high-reliability software for safety-critical applications in UAS technology. Collaborate with teams, maintain solutions, and automate processes.

Lead perception technical efforts for UAS programs: design target detection/tracking and nonlinear state estimators, architect multi-sensor world modeling, integrate ROS2/DDS interfaces, optimize real-time C++ embedded deployments, and mentor engineers while contributing reusable platform components.

Build and productionize LLM-powered tools, RAG systems, and agentic workflows. Deploy and operate AI infrastructure on Kubernetes, manage model serving and vector stores, integrate identity and access controls, automate CI/CD and data pipelines, and establish evaluation and observability for deployed services in a defense-oriented environment.

Develop high-fidelity RGB and LWIR camera models and synthetic-data pipelines in Unreal Engine, stream sensor outputs to ROS 2, implement noise/artifacts and target injection, manage 3D asset pipelines, and optimize headless/real-time simulation for perception and Target State Estimation testing and CI/CD integration.