Electrical Engineer

Aurelius Systems

$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5+ years working with electrical hardware, specializing in power, embedded systems, and integration.
  • Hands-on experience with systems operating at 48V+ and testing high-voltage circuits.
  • Knowledge in embedded control electronics including microcontrollers and telemetry.
  • Experience designing and fabricating wire harnesses for high-power applications.
  • Proficient in Altium Designer, SPICE, and MATLAB/Simulink.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-voltage DC/DC converters and rectifiers for laser systems.
  • Architect and validate battery management systems for safety and efficiency.
  • Build rugged wire harnesses for high-power laser and motor systems.
  • Drive hands-on prototyping and testing on the field range.
  • Design embedded control electronics and perform electrical simulations to optimize designs.
  • Conduct design for manufacturability (DFM) reviews with fabricators.
  • Integrate electronics with various subsystems including mechanical and optical components.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity options.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with United Health Care.
  • Flexible vacation policy offering 18 days PTO and 5 sick days.
  • Opportunities for travel to field testing events and range days.
  • Daily lunches and office snacks/refreshments covered.
  • Reimbursement for E-bike/scooter expenses up to $500.
  • Direct access to company leadership and significant ownership of work.
Full Job Description
The Role & Your Impact:

We need an Electrical Engineer who can own a wide surface area of electromechanical hardware. You won't specialize in one subsystem, you'll move across power, embedded control, wire harnesses, and integration work, wherever the team needs horsepower. That means you're soldering prototypes one day, pulling harnesses the next, and helping integrate subsystems on the range the week after.

This isn't a narrow role. It's a force multiplier position on a small team building a weapon system from scratch.

What You'll Own:
  • Design and build high-voltage DC/DC converters, rectifiers, inverters, and diode driver electronics (48V+ systems)
  • Architect and validate battery management systems from safe charge/discharge, thermal management, to fault protection for high-voltage battery packs
  • Build ruggedized wire harnesses for high-power laser and motor systems (connector selection, routing, environmental protection)
  • Drive hands-on prototyping, assembly, and field testing of power electronic systems on our range
  • Design embedded control electronics like microcontrollers, FPGAs, sensing, telemetry, and fault handling
  • Perform electrical simulations (SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink) to optimize performance before you build
  • Conduct DFM reviews and work directly with fabricators to get designs into production
  • Integrate electronics with mechanical, optical, and robotics subsystems
  • Generate schematics, BOMs, wiring diagrams, and documentation meeting MIL-STD and ITAR requirements

What We're Looking For:
  • 2-5+ years working across electrical hardware from power, embedded, to systems integration
  • Hands-on experience with 48V+ systems. You've built and tested high-voltage circuits, not just reviewed drawings
  • Comfortable with embedded control electronics like microcontrollers, sensing, telemetry, and fault handling
  • You've designed and fabricated wire harnesses for real systems
  • Multi-layer PCB design, IC selection, and on-board thermal management
  • Proficient in Altium Designer, SPICE, and MATLAB/Simulink
  • Broad curiosity. You're as comfortable debugging a harness as reading a power schematic


Where you probably come from: Robotics labs, EV companies, aerospace hardware teams, defense programs, or Formula SAE Electric. You don't have to be a power specialist, but you need to have built real things at voltage.

Not a fit if: Your experience is exclusively low-voltage microcontroller or PCB work, or you've never physically built and tested hardware above 48V.

Nice-to-Haves:
  • Experience with laser diode driving or directed energy power systems
  • Background in EMI/EMC design and shielding
  • Familiarity with MIL-STD standards and ITAR compliance
  • Experience with long-duration system deployment in harsh environments
  • Active security clearance or ability to obtain one

Education:

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or related field.

What you've built matters more than where you went to school.

How You Operate:
  • Extreme bias for action. You'd rather build a prototype tomorrow than model it for a month
  • Rigorous testing mindset. You characterize your own systems before the field does
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and fast, constantly iterating in a startup environment
  • Your brain only releases dopamine when you're building
  • You debug from first principles, not Stack Overflow
  • Clear communicator across mechanical, electrical, optical, and ML teams
  • Self-directed. You identify what needs to happen next and do it without being told

How We Work:

Core hours are Monday through Friday, 9 to 6. When we're sprinting toward a demo or field test, the team ramps up - nights, weekends, whatever it takes to ship.

When the sprint lands, we ramp down. We don't manufacture intensity for show.

Benefits:
  • Competitive salary + equity
  • United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible 18 days PTO + 5 sick days
  • Travel to field test events and range days
  • Covered daily lunches and office snacks + drinks
  • E-bike / scooter stipend ( Up to $500)
  • Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work

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