Electronics Technician, Drone Assembly

Wing Xpand is Expanding What's Possible™ with Autonomous Systems, building long-endurance, backpackable smart plane drones and robotics systems that support defense, public safety, disaster response, and commercial missions. Our platforms operate across air, ground, and maritime domains, integrating autonomy, AI-powered sensing, edge computing, and networked systems to deliver real-world intelligence and threat detection. We design, build, and deploy complete systems — hardware, software, and data — and we move fast.

As Wing Xpand scales, we are seeking high performers to grow with our team.

We're looking for an electronics technician who can solder well, rework a board, and find the fault in a system nobody else can figure out.

That's the core of this job. You'll build and repair wire harnesses, do component-level work on PCBs, bring up and test electrical systems, and troubleshoot them when something doesn't behave. Our aircraft, rovers, and watercraft are dense with electronics — power distribution, autopilots, radios, payloads, sensors — and when a unit fails on the bench or comes back from the field, you're the one who helps isolate the fault, trace it to the board, the harness, or the connector, and either repair it or hand our engineers a clear picture of what's wrong.

The job doesn't stop at the bench. You'll learn robotics assembly — airframe buildup, mechanical integration, final assembly and test — and there may be composite work as well. We'd rather teach the assembly side to someone strong on electrical than teach electrical to someone strong on assembly. If you've already done both, that's a real advantage. If you haven't, come ready to learn and we'll train you.

If you've spent time on a line doing the same solder joint four hundred times a shift, this is the opposite. We build aircraft, rovers, and watercraft in low volume and high variety — in a given week you might build up a prototype harness, tear into a unit that came back from a range, bring up a payload nobody has flown yet, and help get a production batch out the door.

It's also genuinely cool hardware: a plane with an 8-foot wingspan that packs into a backpack and expands in under two minutes, going to people who use it for real.

You'll work directly with our electrical and mechanical engineers, along with the rest of the production team, which means the person who designed the board is sitting a few feet from your bench. When something in the design makes your job harder, you say so and it gets changed. That doesn't happen at bigger shops.

Electrical and electronics

• Build, modify, and repair wire harnesses and cable assemblies, including crimping, splicing, potting, and strain relief.
• Perform through-hole and surface-mount soldering and PCB rework, including component replacement and trace repair.
• Troubleshoot electrical and electromechanical systems to the component level using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and bench supplies.
• Bring up, test, and validate electrical assemblies before integration.
• Diagnose returned and failed units, isolate the fault, and document findings for engineering.
• Read and work from schematics, wiring diagrams, and bills of material.
• Follow ESD-safe practices and maintain a controlled bench.

Assembly and integration

• Support the assembly of airframes, mechanical systems, and subassemblies following documented work instructions.
• Integrate electronics into vehicles and perform functional checkout.
• Prepare and integrate 3D printed parts for production use.
• Support composite fabrication and finishing as needed.
• Inspect and test completed assemblies, and get units ready to ship.

Shop and process

• Use hand tools and shop equipment safely.
• Keep accurate build records, test…