About the Company
The way humans use robots is broken. Modern problems demand more robots than we have operators — every drone, ground vehicle and maritime system requires dedicated training, manual control and constant oversight. Breaker's AI agent breaks this constraint. Our technology turns any robot into a truly autonomous, self-organizing teammate: operators command and query teams of robots through natural language conversations over the push-to-talk radios they already carry, no laptops, no controllers, no additional gear. We're backed by some of the best investors globally and growing our team across Austin, Texas and Sydney, Australia.
About the Role
- Own the hardware, provisioning and field testing that translates Breaker's software into autonomous robots flying real missions
- Run field testing campaigns end-to-end: planning, provisioning, flying, data capture and the post-test debrief
- Keep the company's hardware inventoried, configured and flight-ready: drones, radios, comms and everything in between
- A hands-on, hardware-first role for someone who is drone-obsessed and process-driven (this is not a software development role)
- Roughly one week a month in the field; you must be willing to travel
Breaker's software is only as good as the robots it runs on, and getting those robots into the field, configured correctly and flying reliably, is its own hard problem. This role owns that problem. You'll be the person who turns a software release into drones in the air: provisioning and configuring hardware, running simulation to catch issues before the field, planning and executing field testing campaigns, capturing and triaging the data that comes back, and keeping the company's hardware organised and ready to go.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and run field testing campaigns end-to-end: prepare the gear, execute the test plan, capture clean data and run the post-test debrief
- Provision and configure drones and other hardware — load software releases, set and tune flight parameters, and get every platform flight-ready
- Own the hardware registry and inventory, keeping the Sydney workshop organised and deployment-ready (and supporting the Austin team as needed)
- Run simulation (software-in-the-loop) testing on a regular cadence, including new releases and CONOPs, to surface issues before they reach the field
- Triage issues coming out of the field, package clean and useful bug reports for the software team, and offload and analyse field data
- Support demos and field deployments in Australia and internationally with on-site hardware, comms and configuration support
- Build and maintain SOPs, operator manuals, test tooling and field documentation; support new hardware and platform integrations alongside the team
Essential Requirements
- Hands-on experience with drones or other UAVs — you understand how they work (flight controllers, ESCs, props, radios) and have built, tuned or seriously tinkered with at least one platform
- Familiarity with ArduPilot or a similar flight stack: setting parameters, tuning and diagnosing problems
- Comfortable in Linux and on the command line, and with CAD and 3D printing for hardware fixes and fixtures
- Highly organised, with strong attention to detail
- Self-motivated and happy to follow (and improve) defined procedures, and you genuinely enjoy hardware and field work over chasing the next software project
- Willing to travel and participate in regular field testing (around one week a month)
- Australian citizenship
Desirable
- A Remote Pilot Licence (RePL) and/or ReOC experience — if you don't have a RePL, Breaker will help you get one
- Standout university project experience in a competitive, company-like team (for example, solar car, autonomous systems, or robotics competition teams)
- A defence or military background — especially hands-on work with experimental hardware, UAS, drones or military communications
- Field, deployment or expedition experience in demanding environments
- Some software or scripting ability, including using AI coding tools, to build small tools and automations
- Experience improving or extending simulation environments, and prior startup or scale-up experience
Benefits
You'll be an owner, not a renter — foundational decisions are still being made and entire systems need to be built from scratch. You'll work with a team who've shipped production robotics systems, scaled infrastructure and solved hard integration problems. Generous equity packages mean when Breaker wins, you win.
How to Apply
Location: Cicada Innovations, Eveleigh, Sydney, Australia (National Innovation Centre). Regular domestic travel for field testing, with occasional international travel for demos and deployments. Outstanding recent graduates are encouraged to apply, especially those who've cut their teeth on serious, competitive engineering projects.