Full-Time
Learning and Development Manager
Echodyne
201-500 employees
Produces metamaterial-based electronically scanned radar systems
Compensation Overview
$91.5k - $129.9k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Kirkland, WA, USA
In Person
US Citizenship Required
Bachelor's
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- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing learning programs in a corporate environment.
- Experience developing and facilitating leadership and manager development programs.
- Strong project management and program execution skills.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships and influence employees and leaders at all levels.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.
- Experience with a learning management system or other learning technology platforms.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in learning and development, leadership development, instructional design, or a related field.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive learning and development strategy aligned with company goals and organizational priorities.
- Assess organizational and employee development needs through business partnerships, employee feedback, performance data, and other relevant inputs.
- Establish annual learning priorities and programs based on organizational needs and available resources.
- Develop scalable learning solutions that support a growing and evolving workforce.
- Design, develop, and implement learning programs for employees at all levels.
- Develop and facilitate manager and leadership development programs, including foundational training for new and experienced managers.
- Create and enhance onboarding and new-hire development programs in partnership with Human Resources and business leaders.
- Develop training focused on communication, collaboration, feedback, performance management, delegation, and leadership.
- Coordinate internal and external training programs, workshops, seminars, and professional development opportunities.
- Identify and manage external learning providers, consultants, and training vendors as appropriate.
- Evaluate learning programs and use participant feedback and business outcomes to continuously improve program effectiveness.
- Develop resources and programs that support employee career growth and professional development.
- Partner with leaders and Human Resources Business Partners to identify employee development opportunities and skill gaps.
- Support the development of career pathways, competency frameworks, and individual development plans as appropriate.
- Provide managers with tools and resources to support ongoing employee development and meaningful career conversations.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning and encourage employees to take ownership of their professional growth.
- Manage the company's learning management system and other learning technology platforms.
- Maintain training content, learning resources, and program materials.
- Track participation, completion, and other learning metrics.
- Report training completion metrics for AS9100 compliance.
- Manage the learning and development budget and ensure effective utilization of learning resources.
- Ensure required training programs are appropriately tracked and completed.
- Partner with Human Resources Business Partners, Recruiting, Human Resources Operations, and Global Sales Enablement to deliver an integrated employee experience.
- Collaborate with leaders and subject matter experts to identify and address critical capability needs.
- Support organizational change initiatives through targeted learning and communication programs.
- Provide guidance to managers on effective employee development and learning practices.
- Stay current on emerging learning technologies, adult learning principles, leadership development practices, and industry trends.
- Experience in a high-growth technology, engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, or defense environment.
- Experience building learning and development programs and infrastructure in a growing organization.
- Experience with leadership development and manager training.
- Experience with instructional design and adult learning methodologies.
- Experience developing career development programs and competency frameworks.
- Experience measuring learning effectiveness and analyzing learning and development metrics.
- Professional certification in learning and development, instructional design, or organizational development.
Echodyne makes radar systems for defense, government, and commercial markets. Its core product uses metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) radar that electronically steers energy with no moving parts, reducing size, weight, power, and cost. They sell the hardware and also develop software to add features and improve performance for different missions. The radar data is designed to be high quality so it can be used by people and AI to support fast, safety-critical decisions and improve situational awareness.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$199M
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 12, 2026 factory opening gives Echodyne immediate manufacturing scale and hiring momentum.
- Trust Automation’s $490 million SUADS award names Echodyne’s radar as the primary sensor.
- Ukraine, Lithuania, and Fort Hood deployments validate battlefield relevance and operator trust.
What critics are saying
- Revenue depends on defense procurement cycles and counter-UAS budgets, not recurring software.
- Anduril, Northrop Grumman, and Moog can bundle rival sensors into integrated kill chains.
- If Ukraine demand cools and SUADS slows, the new plant becomes an expensive liability by 2027.
What makes Echodyne unique
- Echodyne’s MESA uses standard materials and software steering to cut radar SWaP-C.
- July 22, 2026 ATAK plugin embeds MESA radar inside TAK workflows.
- The July 2026 Washington plant scales EchoShield, EchoGuard, and EchoFlight to 30,000 radars yearly.
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Benefits
Incentive stock options
Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage benefits for employee and family members
Unlimited vacation
12 paid sick days
9 paid holidays
Company paid disability, life insurance, employee assistance program and travel insurance
401k Plan
Growth & Insights and Company News
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Echodyne launches ATAK plugin for MESA radar platform. Source // Echodyne July 23, 2026 BY Echodyne Echodyne has announced the availability of an Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) plugin for its MESA radar platform, enabling users to configure, control and visualize radar data directly within the ATAK environment. The integration allows military, public safety and security organizations to incorporate MESA radar data into existing TAK-based workflows, helping streamline deployment, reduce operator workload and improve real-time situational awareness. The plugin supports both individual radar deployments and distributed radar networks, providing high-resolution radar data through a familiar operational interface. The ATAK plugin is included with Echodyne's Software & Support package and is available immediately through the company's customer portal. July 23, 2026 Red Cat Holdings has integrated its Black Widow drone with C3A Solutions' OBERON-enabled tactical fires networks, allowing the aircraft to deliver ISR data directly into digital fires workflows while supporting greater interoperability and faster information sharing for military operations. July 20, 2026 Quantum Systems has been selected by Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency to participate in a proof-of-concept program evaluating next-generation counter-drone technologies for the Japan Self-Defense Forces, expanding the company's defense partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. July 20, 2026 Ondas secured a $6.9 million contract from the Australian Department of Defence to supply portable counter-drone DTIM kits through its Ondas Sentinel division, expanding the company's international defense business July 15, 2026 MatrixSpace AI Systems Vice President and General Manager Matt Kling has joined the Security Industry Association's Drone Security Subcommittee, where he will contribute the company's expertise in AI-powered counter-UAS technologies to support industry collaboration, policy development and secure airspace initiatives. July 13, 2026 Innoviz Technologies and AeroNous Solutions partnered to integrate LiDAR technology into AeroNous' counter-drone command-and-control platform, adding centimeter-level 3D localization to improve tracking and response to aerial threats. October 13-14, 2026 ALERUS CENTER | GRAND FORKS,NORTH DAKOTA The UAS industry is in the midst of an economic and technological evolution. The 20th annual UAS Summit and Expo - set in Grand Forks, North Dakota, near the heart of some of the most prominent U.S. UAS activity currently happening - is set to showcase and explain the evolution of UAVs while revealing the current state of the commercial UAS industry. It's the original epicenter of drone research, earned its place as the Silicon Valley of Drones and as you'll see from the commercial, government and military flight activity filling the sky of the Northern Plains and beyond every day, it has truly become America's UAS proving grounds.View More
Echodyne's $40M radar manufacturing plant comes online. The Kirkland facility will expand production of its MESA radar systems to more than 30,000 annually. Sen. Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene took a tour of the new production lines at the Kirkland facility. Radar platform company Echodyne has officially opened a new $40 million manufacturing facility near its headquarters in Kirkland.
Echodyne opens new manufacturing facility to meet surging global Demand for advanced MESA radar. July 12, 2026 As governments around the world accelerate investment in counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) and short-range air defense, Echodyne today announced the opening of a new advanced radar manufacturing facility in Washington State, significantly expanding its manufacturing capacity to meet rapidly growing demand from U.S. and allied customers. With millions of drones manufactured and used by both sides in the Russian War in Ukraine, the need for enhanced safety for defense, national security, and critical infrastructure assets grows with every successful strike and interception. The low cost and high utility of drones dramatically alters the need for safety and security sensors. And as the low altitude economy takes off, hundreds of thousands of drones will perform a range of life-saving and commercial missions, requiring a sensor infrastructure to monitor airspace activity. The new 86,350-square-foot facility is a major step in readying supply for multiple, large, global markets. The company has begun end-to-end manufacturing operations which will eventually be able to produce more than 30,000 radars annually - equivalent to more than 2,500 radars each month. Over the coming months, Echodyne will transition all manufacturing operations from its headquarters to the new site, creating a dedicated manufacturing and operations hub capable of supporting sustained production growth across its radar portfolio. The company's $40 M investment in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is complemented by more than 100 new jobs and up to 200 as the facility reaches full production capacity. Discover more Arms Industry Reports Armed Forces Equipment defense technology "Our global customer base is demanding more radar to be delivered as fast as possible," said Eben Frankenberg, CEO of Echodyne. "Drones are driving significant change in both enabling a drone economy and in defending against nefarious drone use. While radar performance will always be the dominant consideration, product availability both now and in a predictable and consistent manner over time is quickly becoming a requirement for any global supplier. The only way to defend against mass is with mass. That requires not just high-performance economical radars, but the ability to manufacture them at scale." Demand for high-performance radar continues to grow across a broad range of applications including counter-UAS, force protection, border security, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, protection of critical infrastructure, and beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous systems. Unlike conventional electronically scanned array radars that rely on thousands of phase shifters, Echodyne's patented Metamaterials Electronically Scanned Array (MESA(R) architecture achieves electronic beam steering through a fundamentally simpler design. Manufactured using standard materials and scalable commercial processes, the technology delivers high-fidelity radar performance while reducing the size, weight, power, complexity and cost traditionally associated with electronically scanned array radar. The result is a compact, software-defined, commercially exportable product designed not only for performance, but for manufacturability at commercial scale. The new facility provides approximately 74,350 square feet of manufacturing space and 12,000 square feet of warehousing, enabling production to flex across multiple radar product lines while supporting future product introductions. Unmanned Maritime Technology That same design philosophy extends into manufacturing. Rather than relying on traditional low-volume defense production, Echodyne's manufacturing approach combines breakthrough radar technology with commercially scalable production techniques. The simplicity of the company's MESA architecture was engineered not only to deliver exceptional radar performance, but also to maximize manufacturability, allowing production to scale efficiently using commercial manufacturing methods while maintaining consistent quality. The company's modular approach enables manufacturing capacity to flex across product lines, rapidly introduce new capabilities and respond quickly to changing customer demand. Recent program awards and growing international demand underscore the need for expanded manufacturing capacity. Echodyne's radar technology is integrated into hundreds of defense and security systems worldwide and supports platforms developed by leading defense companies including Anduril, Axon, Moog, and Northrop Grumman Corporation.Most recently, the company was selected as the primary radar provider for Trust Automation's Small UAS Detection System (SUADS) platform, which is being delivered to the U.S. Air Force under a $490 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The company expects to continue expanding its workforce as manufacturing operations scale. Post Views: 85
Radar-Platform company opens new Woodinville facility. Radar-platform company Echodyne cut the ribbon on July 9 for its latest Woodinville-located manufacturing facility. The new 86,350-square-foot center was built to meet the growing demand for drone-detection and airspace-monitoring systems. The new facility can support up to 200 jobs once it reaches its full production capacity. Echodyne plans to transition all manufacturing from its headquarters in Kirkland to its new facility in the coming months, according to a release. The company originally used its technology to help drones detect objects and obstacles in flight but pivoted due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Echodyne now focuses its tech on counter-drone security. "Drones are driving significant change in both enabling a drone economy and in defending against nefarious drone use. While radar performance will always be the dominant consideration, product availability both now and in a predictable and consistent manner over time is quickly becoming a requirement for any global supplier," Eben Frankenberg, CEO of Echodyne, said in the release. "The only way to defend against mass is with mass. That requires not just high-performance economical radars, but the ability to manufacture them at scale."