Hardware Systems Lead, Drone is open at Applied in Sunnyvale. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $270K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on Applied’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As Hardware Systems Lead for our drone program, you will be the hands-on chief engineer for the hardware that carries our autonomy into the air. You will understand the full system, mechanical and electrical, and own the question that matters most in flight: will it survive, and will it keep working when the aircraft is hundreds of feet up? You will architect, build, test, and break hardware, then use what you learn…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Applied’s careers page.
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