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Senior Electrical Engineer (Avionics)

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, test, and integrate propulsion-subsystem electronics for avionics propulsion systems, ensuring reliability under extreme environments.

Role type

Senior IC electrical engineer (propulsion systems)

Builds

Propulsion flight controllers, power electronics, high-efficiency motor controllers, and electromagnetic actuators

Domain

Defense / Aerospace propulsion

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

PCB design (Altium), circuit simulation (LTSpice), analog/digital/power electronics, thermal analysis, DFMEA, root cause analysis, oscilloscope/logic analyzer usage, CAN/I2C/SPI/Ethernet protocols

Preferred skills

MATLAB/Simulink, control loop modeling, system simulations

Technologies

Altium Designer, LTSpice, MATLAB, Simulink

Responsibilities

Full cycle PCB design from schematic to integration, design and optimization of flight controller and motor circuits, rigorous circuit simulation and worst-case analysis, leading board bring-ups and qualification testing, collaborating with mechanical/thermal/software teams, conducting peer reviews and failure analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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