Senior Electrical Engineer, Design

Firestorm

$145K — $160K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in designing and releasing electrical hardware
  • U.S. Person status (Citizen or Permanent Resident) required
  • Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits
  • Proficiency with EDA tools like Altium Designer and Cadence Allegro/OrCAD
  • Working knowledge of PCB layout and design considerations
  • Strong root-cause analysis and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and resolve systems engineering problems to meet design requirements
  • Own the full-cycle hardware development from concept to validation
  • Design embedded control electronics from concept to production
  • Create multilayer PCBs for constrained applications
  • Generate engineering documentation including ECOs and BOMs
  • Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
  • Maintain cable harness documentation using Altium Harness Designer
  • Source and select components by interfacing with vendors
  • Support project timelines and report on progress to senior management
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver functional products

Benefits

  • Comprehensive engineering documentation support
  • Opportunity to work on complex technical challenges in aerospace
  • Hands-on involvement in hardware debugging and design
  • Access to advanced industry-standard EDA tools
  • Cross-functional collaboration with other engineering disciplines
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will play a central role in developing critical electrical hardware for our aircraft. The role spans complex technical challenges including power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high-performance processing, high-speed network communications, and system-level electrical integration.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep technical expertise in power electronics and electrical system design who is comfortable moving between detailed circuit development, system-level tradeoffs, and difficult hardware debugging.

What You'll Do

  • Evaluate, interpret and resolve systems engineering problems to meet the design requirements
  • Full-cycle hardware development: Own the entire flow - concept, modeling, worst case analysis, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, design reiteration for improving design maturity, testing and validation
  • Design embedded control electronics from concept to production, including hardware selection, schematic & PCB design, board bring-up, system-level integration, and flight test
  • Design multilayer, HDI, flex, and rigid-flex PCBs for space-, weight-, and thermally constrained applications
  • Generate comprehensive engineering documentation, including ECOs, fabrication drawings, BOMs, and release packages
  • Conduct root cause analysis of PCB design or layout issues, identify corrective actions, and implement solutions to improve performance, manufacturability, or reliability
  • Design and maintain cable harness documentation using Altium Harness Designer
  • Interface with vendors to source and select appropriate components for designs, ensuring quality and timely delivery
  • Project Management: Support project timelines and ensure that technical milestones are met, reporting on progress to senior management
  • Work closely with other electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional products


Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for products that have shipped, flown, operated in the field, or otherwise seen real-world use
  • U.S. Person status (Citizen or Permanent Resident) required due to ITAR regulations
  • Strong electrical engineering fundamentals across analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits
  • Strong proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD)
  • Working knowledge of PCB layout tradeoffs, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and manufacturability
  • Familiarity with signal integrity and transmission line concepts (e.g., phase matching, crosstalk, insertion/return loss, termination, and BGA breakout strategies)
  • Strong root-cause analysis skills and the ability to move from ambiguous symptoms to clear technical conclusions and practical corrective actions
  • Clear communication and documentation habits, especially when decisions affect safety, reliability, production, or fleet operations


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with avionics, aerospace, drones, robotics, automotive electronics, satellites, or other high-reliability hardware.
  • Experience designing for weight, power consumption, thermal limits, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, environmental exposure, or high-volume manufacturing.
  • Familiarity with signal integrity simulation and analysis tools
  • Experience with CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, GNSS, radios, motor-control electronics, battery systems, or sensor interfaces.


Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $145,000 - $160,000 per year.

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