Electrical Engineer, PCB Design
Core
Designing high-reliability avionics, embedded processing, and power systems for autonomous air vehicles and missile platforms.
Role type
Senior IC electrical engineer (PCB design & power systems)
Builds
Flight-critical electronics, PCB assemblies, and FPGA-based processing architectures for next-generation autonomous air platforms.
Domain
Defense / Avionics / Embedded Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Full-cycle PCB design (schematic, layout, impedance matching, grounding), power system design and analysis, microcontroller bring-up, mixed-signal electronics, lab equipment operation (oscilloscopes, DMM, logic analyzers), electrical bus interfaces (CAN, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, RS232/422, RS485, USB), system interconnect diagrams, wire harness design.
Preferred skills
High-end consumer or military embedded systems design, battery and AC power systems, low-level firmware development, defense and missile systems background, thermal and vibration effects on electrical designs.
Technologies
FPGA, microcontrollers, CAN, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, RS232/422, RS485, USB, oscilloscopes, DMM, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers.
Responsibilities
Collect requirements and design schematics for PCBs; supervise or complete layout, bring-up, test, debug, and system integration; troubleshoot issues spanning electrical and software boundaries; perform power design and integration of power management systems; develop payloads and subsystems (sensors, interfaces, networking); create system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses; conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.
Seniority
Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC