Defense-focused drone maker building night-capable unmanned systems
Teal Drones builds defense-first drones with dual-use deployment, running a flight-software stack built on PX4, ArduPilot, QGroundControl and Qt/QML alongside Android and C++. Hiring is engineering-heavy and skewed senior. Job posts point to DevOps maturity work: faster GitLab CI/CD builds, automated testing, and a network overhaul spanning Fortinet, Cisco Meraki and Zscaler.
Teal Drones is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based drone manufacturer founded in 2014 and operating as a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings. The company designs drone hardware and software primarily for military users, with dual-use products also deployed for federal, state and enterprise customers. It employs 51–200 people and hires in the United States. Its work spans embedded and ground-control software, mechanical design in SolidWorks, and electronics manufacturing aligned to IPC J-STD-001 standards.
Teal Drones uses PX4, ArduPilot, QGroundControl, Qt/QML, C++, Kotlin, Java, Python, gRPC and Protocol Buffers, with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker and AWS for infrastructure, plus SolidWorks and SAP.
Teal Drones is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and hires within the United States. It is a privately held subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings, founded in 2014.
Job posts point to CI/CD pipeline improvements, automated testing, drone management services, PX4 log handling and diagnostics, and modernizing networking across Fortinet, Cisco Meraki, Zscaler and Azure.
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