Defense-grade drones with embedded autonomy and night-operation capability
Teal Drones manufactures military and federal drones built on PX4 and Ardupilot flight stacks, running on STM32 and Qualcomm platforms. The engineering-heavy hiring mix (13 of 21 active roles) and active project list—FPV configuration, qualification testing, first-article inspection—suggest rapid scaling from prototype to production. Pain points cluster around defense-compliance verification, manufacturing yield, and supplier quality, indicating a company moving past early-stage hardware into defense-industrial process maturity.
Teal Drones designs and manufactures autonomous drones for defense, federal, state, and enterprise customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, the company operates as a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings. The product line centers on night-operation capable systems marketed as Dominate the Night™. Teal's operations span hardware design (SolidWorks, Altium), firmware development (Yocto, BitBake, Python), manufacturing (Arena PLM, quality-management workflows), and logistics. The organization is scaling manufacturing and quality-assurance capabilities to meet defense procurement standards.
Firmware: PX4, Ardupilot, STM32, Qualcomm. Design: SolidWorks, Altium, MATLAB. Manufacturing: Arena PLM, NetSuite, SAP. Cloud: AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government. Testing: TestRail, Nessus.
Active projects include FPV drone configuration, qualification and acceptance testing, QMS compliance development, first-article inspection, NPI-to-FRP transition, and PX4/QGroundControl fork maintenance.
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