CareerPlan

Senior Electrical Engineer (Sensor Systems)

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time$146k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Design, test, and validate proximity sensors and full-cycle PCB designs for autonomous air vehicles and defense systems.

Role type

Senior Electrical Engineer (Sensor Systems & PCB Design)

Builds

Proximity sensors, PCBs, wire harnesses, and electronic subsystems for autonomous vehicles

Domain

Defense technology, autonomous systems, sensor fusion

Required skills

Complex board design, mixed-signal circuit design, sensor design and integration, UAS/power electronics design, EMI testing, test equipment operation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers), electronic CAD tools (Altium/Eagle), system interconnect design

Preferred skills

Height of burst sensor design, ordnance fuzing systems, UAS/missiles/maritime programs, MIL-STD compliance (1316, 810, 882E, 2105), JOTP-052/054, explosive operations handling

Technologies

Altium, Eagle, CAN, I2C, SPI, MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-882E, JOTP-052, JOTP-054

Responsibilities

Design, test, and validate proximity sensors for autonomous vehicles; perform full-cycle PCB design from requirements to integration; develop system interconnect diagrams and wire harnesses; conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews; support field operations with root cause analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC