# UAV Engineer

Overview SRI’s Bright Ceramic Technologies (BCT) develops, applies, and commercializes advanced-material technologies, bringing together engineering, fabrication, and system integration at our Palo Alto, California facility. We are expanding our team to translate urgent DoW mission needs into fieldable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities that support U.S. forces and approved allied partners. We are seeking a hands-on UAV Engineer who wants to build, fly, solve problems, and see their work move beyond the laboratory into operational use. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute throughout the design-build-integrate-test-fly-deliver cycle, gaining exposure to multiple projects, advanced materials, avionics, and mission payloads. This opportunity offers meaningful technical ownership and the ability to broaden your expertise while using flight-test results and operator feedback to deliver reliable, practical capabilities for demanding missions. This position is onsite in Palo Alto, California, with travel to remote flight-test locations and Government test sites. Responsibilities Design, build, assemble, and modify UAV prot

- **Id**: 4265743
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sri-international-uav-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:37:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:37:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5704
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Science & Engineering, Nonprofits & Foundations, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 58826
- **Name**: SRI International
- **Domain**: sri.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sri-international>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary

- **Min**: 90580
- **Max**: 120020
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120020

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T16:37:41Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 18; Filings 12m: 18

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T19:51:20Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120020
- **Is top pay**: yes

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