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# Hardware Integration Engineer - Recon Works

- **Company:** Noda Ai
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 3D Printing, Computer-Aided Design, Data Analysis, SolidWorks (CAD), Software Debugging, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), Test Data, Hardware Testing, MIL-STD-810 Environmental Testing, Creo, NVIDIA Jetson
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/hardware-integration-engineer-recon-works-noda-ai-10620811

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, electrical, mechatronics, or a related engineering field
 * 3+ years of hands-on hardware development, integration, or test experience
 * Proficiency in a parametric CAD tool (SolidWorks, Onshape, NX, or Creo) and in designing for rapid fabrication (additive, CNC, sheet metal)
 * Hands-on electromechanical integration experience, including wiring harnesses, connectors, and power distribution, and debugging with multimeters, oscilloscopes, and similar tools
 * Experience writing test plans, running hardware tests, and turning test data into design changes
 * Comfort with shop tools and fabrication, and with working outdoors in field test conditions
 * US citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance, * Experience building or testing unmanned systems (UAS, UGV, USV, or UUV)
 * Familiarity with common autonomy hardware, such as PX4 or ArduPilot autopilots, embedded compute (for example, NVIDIA Jetson), EO/IR, lidar, or radar sensors, and tactical radios
 * Python or similar scripting for data acquisition and test analysis
 * Environmental or qualification testing experience (for example, MIL-STD-810 or MIL-STD-461)
 * FAA Part 107 remote pilot certificate
 * Existing Secret or higher clearance, * Bias towards building: you would rather make a part tonight than analyze it for a week
 * Systems thinking: you see how a change affects the entire system and never think in terms of local optimums
 * Comfort with ambiguity: requirements shift and prototypes fail; you have a short memory when it comes to failure and a long memory when it comes to vision
 * High agency: you find the problems, fix them, and communicate back to team
 * Test discipline: you record what we tested, what happened, and why, so that the next test - and team - is always improving

## Description

As Hardware Integration Engineer - Recon Works, you turn concepts into working hardware. You design prototype parts in CAD, integrate mechanical, electrical, and compute subsystems onto unmanned vehicles, and test what you build in the lab and the field until it works or we learn why it can't., * Plan and run bench, lab, and field tests of prototype systems: write test plans, instrument hardware, collect and analyze data, and turn results into design changes (50%)

 * Integrate subsystems from multiple sources (sensors, payloads, compute, power, communications, and propulsion) onto air, sea, and land platforms, including wiring harnesses, connectors, and power distribution (30%)
 * Design prototype parts and assemblies in CAD (SolidWorks, Onshape, or similar) for rapid fabrication by 3D printing, machining, or sheet metal, from brackets and enclosures to complete payload mounts (20%)
 * Document designs, interfaces, and test results so de-risked prototypes can hand off cleanly to NODA product and engineering teams