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# Electronics Engineer - Sustaining at Hargrave Technologies

- **Company:** Hargrave Technologies
- **Location:** Bella Vista
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hargravetechnologies/37c25407-e52f-4414-99e0-3bd55eb4ddd0

## Job description

This role is for engineers who enjoy solving technical problems, working hands-on with hardware and seeing their work make a real difference to physical products. Our work supports defence and military applications, where reliability, performance and engineering quality are critical. You'll work with high-performance electronics, motor controllers and power systems built for demanding environments. As the Electronics Engineer - Sustaining, you'll help maintain and improve our existing product portfolio, ensuring our products continue to perform reliably as manufacturing scales. The work involves a range of technical challenges, from troubleshooting hardware issues and validating alternative components to making design improvements and developing manufacturing test equipment. You'll work closely with our engineering and production teams, gaining hands-on exposure to our products and helping ensure they meet the standards our customers expect. You will be working on:

- Providing sustaining engineering support for existing products, ensuring quality, performance and reliability.
- Evaluating, testing and validating alternative electronic components.
- Troubleshooting electronic hardware issues and implementing improvements.
- Performing design revisions, including PCB re-layouts, schematic updates and circuit modifications.
- Maintaining engineering documentation, including schematics, revision records and technical procedures on internal platforms such as Notion.
- Designing and developing scalable manufacturing test jigs, fixtures and supporting hardware.
- Implementing engineering changes into production.
- Improving testing efficiency, accuracy and automation to support production scale-up.
- Collaborating with engineering and production teams to resolve technical issues and improve manufacturing processes.

## WHY HARGRAVE

Named after Australian aviation pioneer Lawrence Hargrave, we are an Australian engineering company designing and manufacturing high-performance electronics, motors and control systems for demanding applications. Our work is mission-critical, technically challenging and used in environments where reliability matters. Our technology supports drones and military applications, where engineering decisions directly influence real-world performance. You'll work on engineering with real-world purpose and see your contributions become physical products used in demanding environments. We're small enough for your voice and work to have a direct impact, while scaling to deliver high-impact projects around the world. Ownership is central to how we operate. Engineers are trusted to make decisions, challenge existing approaches and take responsibility for their work through to completion. Less bureaucracy. More ownership, accountability and quality. As Hargrave grows, you'll have opportunities to shape our products, processes and engineering culture. The ideal candidate would have experience in:

- 2-7 years of relevant experience in electronics or hardware engineering.
- Electronic circuit design, PCB layout and schematic development.
- Analogue and digital electronics, including hardware troubleshooting.
- Electronic component evaluation, selection and validation.
- Proficiency in using oscilloscopes and multimeters for electronic testing and troubleshooting.
- Designing and developing manufacturing test fixtures, jigs and supporting hardware.
- Providing technical engineering support for electronics manufacturing and production processes.

Experience with power electronics, motor controllers, ESCs or automated manufacturing testing would be highly regarded.

## About Hargrave Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hargrave Technologies is a leading Australian developer of mission-critical power electronics solutions, specialising in electronic speed controllers (ESCs) for brushless electric motors used in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), defence, automotive, and space applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) — bootstrapped momentum with a single known grant
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Founded**: 2015 (began life as Advanced Power Drives, later renamed Hargrave Technologies)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Power electronics for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), defence, aerospace, automotive, and space
- **Target customers**: B2B, focused on commercial and defence aerospace primes, tier-1 integrators, and UAS platform manufacturers
- **Mission/purpose**: To beat the forces of gravity; to develop the smallest, lightest, highest-performance UAS power electronics that enable longer flight times, greater payloads, and faster, more agile missions

## Products & Services
All products are designed and manufactured in Australia, NDAA-compliant, and support open standards (DroneCAN, ARINC 825, DShot, PWM). They offer both off-the-shelf and heavily customised solutions.

- **microFLUX4LP** – 4-channel smart power supply for avionics and payloads, with DroneCAN telemetry and protection
- **nanoDRIVE4LPi** – Lightest IP67 nano ESC for demanding sUAS applications; DroneCAN + FOCAL algorithm
- **microDRIVELP** – Low-voltage, high-power bare-board ESC, ultra-light, 60A continuous / 110A burst
- **microDRIVEMP** – Medium-power 120A ESC, IP67, DroneCAN + FOCAL algorithm
- **microDRIVEHP** – High-power 200A burst controller
- **microFLUX2LP / microFLUX2MP** – Dual-channel smart power supplies for power distribution and telemetry
- **microDRIVELPi** – Low-voltage, high-power DroneCAN controller, IP67
- **Custom engineering services** – Rapid development of bespoke ESC variants and integrated power electronics

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding USD 610,203 (grant, 2025-08-01)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No institutional investors listed; the company states it works with "the largest aerospace companies in the world"; alumni have moved to Zipline, Tesla, Breaker, EY
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 21 employees (as of early 2026), +17.9% yearly growth
  - LinkedIn followers growing +45.6% year over year (2,799 followers)
  - Awarded a grant in 2025
  - Expanding into automotive and space verticals

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full vertical integration**: Proprietary firmware (FOCAL algorithm) developed in-house, combined with complete hardware control and on-site SMT manufacturing in Australia
- **NDAA-compliant** – all products meet US defence sourcing requirements, a critical moat for defence contracts
- **Smallest and lightest in class** – e.g., nano ESC base weight 5g, IP67 rating
- **Proven in mission-critical environments** – already deployed in commercial and defence aerospace
- **Rapid customisation** – ability to deliver bespoke designs in weeks, not months

## Strategic Focus
- Growing presence in defence and government aerospace programs, both in Australia and globally
- Extending product lines for automotive (EV motor controllers) and space applications
- Maintaining leadership in UAS power electronics through continued R&D on efficiency and miniaturisation
- Scaling manufacturing capacity to support larger defence contracts

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Freedom and resources to innovate" – solves complex, real-world challenges in power electronics and aerospace
- **Team**: Small, multidisciplinary team (16 technical staff out of 21) — high impact per person
- **Global reach**: Products used by major aerospace companies worldwide
- **Remote-friendly**: Careers page explicitly welcomes overseas candidates ("if you’re based overseas … we’d love to hear from you")
- **Location**: Sydney-based, with a state-of-the-art SMT production line; on-site presence expected for hardware roles, but flexible for software/remote
- **Notable**: Inspired by Australian aviation pioneer Lawrence Hargrave; strong emphasis on "beating gravity" and continuous performance improvement

## Sources
1. [Hargrave Technologies Homepage](https://www.hargravetechnologies.com/)
2. [Hargrave Technologies Careers](https://hargravetechnologies.com/company/careers)
3. [Hargrave Technologies About](https://hargravetechnologies.com/company/about-hargrave-technologies)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://au.linkedin.com/company/hargravetechnologies)
5. [Australian Business Register ABN Lookup](https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=45670453120)

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