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Staff Electrical Engineer, Drones

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-07-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design embedded control electronics for aerial small drones from concept to production, including hardware selection, schematic & PCB design, board bring-up, system-level integration, and flight test.

Role type

Staff Electrical Engineer (Embedded Systems)

Builds

Aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and associated test/deployment equipment

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Mixed signal circuit design, embedded control electronics, schematic & PCB design, board bring-up, system-level integration, flight test, lab-based prototyping, troubleshooting complex embedded systems, test equipment operation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, current-probes), electronic design automation (Altium Designer)

Preferred skills

Embedded software and firmware (C/Linux), safety-critical environment development, extreme environment product development, software protocols for embedded development (timers, interrupts, SPI controllers, ADCs)

Technologies

Altium Designer, C, Linux, SPI, ADC

Responsibilities

Design embedded control electronics from concept to production; Troubleshoot issues spanning electrical and software boundaries; Work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers; Support new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC

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