Electrical Engineer I

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Dedrone stands out as the global leader in airspace defense technology and counter UAS solutions. Engineering at Dedrone is tasked with delivering innovative solutions and products to maintain our position on the cutting-edge of innovation.

This is an entry-level Electrical Engineer role for someone who wants to build hardware with their own hands and grow into a design engineer. You’ll work side-by-side with our electrical engineering team across the full lifecycle of next-generation cUAS hardware — building and bringing up boards, designing cable assemblies and wire harnesses, laying out PCBs, running verification and qualification tests, and troubleshooting hardware down to the component level.

Expect to spend real time at the bench. Roughly a third of this job is hands-on build, test, and debug work, and you’ll also take ownership of our lab — its equipment, calibration, fixtures, and organization. The rest is design work alongside senior engineers, starting with cables, harnesses, and PCB layout, and growing into schematic capture and design ownership of your own boards. We’re an analysis-driven team: we expect decisions to be backed by a calculation or a measurement, and we’ll teach you how we do that.

You’ll collaborate closely with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers, product managers, and manufacturing partners, and your work directly supports our mission of protecting airspace and the public from the emerging cUAS threat.

Location: Sterling, VA — hybrid, onsite Tuesday through Friday

This is a genuine growth role, and we’ve mapped it out rather than leaving it vague:

• First six months — build, wire, and test to existing drawings; run bench tests to written plans; get our lab in order and learn our products.

• Six to twelve months — own cable and harness design end to end, including the documentation; take on routine PCB layouts; build and document your own test fixtures.

• One to two years — handle layout for most of our boards, own our library and layout standards, write your own test plans, and begin schematic capture on well-bounded blocks.

• Beyond — schematic ownership of whole boards, analysis you present at design reviews, and a clear path to Electrical Engineer II.

• Build, assemble, and rework prototype and pilot-run electronic assemblies, including PCBs, cable/wire harnesses, and mechanical/electrical integration, following schematics, assembly drawings, and IPC workmanship standards.

• Design cable assemblies and wire harnesses — connector and contact selection, pinouts and wire lists, gauge selection with proper derating, shielding and grounding, labeling, and the drawings someone else can build from.

• Lay out printed circuit boards from schematics owned by senior engineers, and generate complete fabrication and assembly packages. You’ll grow into schematic capture as your fluency builds.

• Perform hardware bring-up, functional test, and debug of new boards and systems, using lab equipment such as multimeters,