Avionics Hardware Engineer (Hypersonic Defense Startup)

A rapidly scaling defense company building hypersonic flight vehicles needs an electrical engineer to own flight-critical hardware from concept to flight. The avionics boards act as the vehicle’s brain, and each engineer is responsible for substantial subsystems with a direct effect on mission success.

Scope

• Own the entire design process for circuit cards, from requirements and schematics to layout, bring-up and debugging through qualification
• Design high-speed boards that mix analog and digital circuitry, built around processors, memory, Ethernet links, power stages, sensor and actuator interfaces and backplanes
• Work with supply chain colleagues on component selection, ordering and supplier relationships so hardware arrives on time
• Test and verify boards against requirements, iterating on designs as needed
• Integrate qualified hardware into the vehicle and support production readiness and high-rate manufacturing

Profile

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline
• Five to eight years of hardware design experience covering the whole cycle, with complex high-speed, mixed-signal PCBs
• Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics or semiconductors
• Experience building and scaling test environments such as racks, fixtures or hardware-in-the-loop setups
• Familiarity with PCB tools such as Altium or Cadence Allegro is a plus
• U.S. person status required

On-site in Los Angeles, five days a week. No visa sponsorship or transfers.