We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Hardware Platform team in Costa Mesa, California. As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will design, test, and validate proximity sensors for our autonomous vehicles.
Responsibilities:
- Design, test, and validation of proximity sensors for autonomous vehicles.
- Vehicle-level integrations and complete lifecycle design from concept through production.
- Full cycle PCB design including establishing or collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug and integration with the system.
- Develop system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment.
- Provide support and collaborate within other air vehicle subsystem development constraints.
- Vendor surveys and evaluation to support sourcing for system components.
- Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.
- Build up and test of engine system components through lab, ground, and flight tests.
- Root cause analysis in support of field operations.
Required Qualifications:
- BS/MS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 7+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
- Strong background in circuit design, including components, and mixed-signals design.
- Experience with sensor design, build, test, and integration.
- Design experience in UAS, power electronics, converter design, or powertrain.
- Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
- Familiarity with standard interfaces such as CAN, I2C, SPI, etc.
- Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, Eagle and others acceptable).
- Experience in EMI testing.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Performed environmental testing in previous positions for military and/or commercial industry.
- Previous experience designing and testing height of burst sensors for ordnance fuzing applications.
- Previous experience designing and testing ordnance fuzing systems.
- Experience in UAS, missiles, or maritime programs.
- Experience with the DoD Weapons Safety Boards.
- Experience designing and scaling production of components at volume.
- Experience developing or testing complex electrical systems.
- Experience with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-2105.
- Experience with JOTP-052 and JOTP-054.
- Experience with explosive operations and/or handling munitions.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary range: $146,000-$194,000 USD per year.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including equity grants and top-tier benefits.


