Electrical Engineer

About the Company

We are a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and manufacturing processes for custom harnesses
• Support design of embedded avionics systems including power, compute, sensing, actuation, and communication subsystems
• Act as the primary point of contact for any manufacturing issues on electrical assemblies
• Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing of digital, analog, RF, and power conversion of printed circuit boards (PCB)
• Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
• Own schematic design, component selection, PCB layout, and design review
• Manage board-level bring-up, debugging, and validation in lab and field test environments
• Guide board-level manufacturing, testing, and assembly processes
• Establish test procedures for validation, environmental, and EMC/ESD qualification

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• 1-5 years of experience designing, building, and testing embedded electronics for aerospace, defense, robotics, or automotive systems
• Strong experience with Altium Designer or similar CAD system (KICAD, EAGLE, CADENCE)
• Experience with High-speed digital electronics, embedded microcontrollers, RF components, power electronics, and digital buses (CAN, SPI, UART, I2C)
• Proficiency in schematic capture, layout, and board-level signal and power integrity design
• Familiarity with environmental design constraints including thermal, EMI/EMC, shock, and vibration
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to comply with ITAR regulations

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in avionics or high-reliability hardware systems
• Proven experience delivering complex, multi-board avionics from concept to production
• Familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson platforms, STM32, RP2040, or other aerospace-class embedded systems
• Experience in design-for-manufacture and supply chain planning for high-mix, low-volume aerospace production
• Experience with rapid prototyping and validation test campaigns
• Prior work in extreme environment systems such as missiles, launch vehicles, or satellites