Senior Electrical Engineer
$146,000–$191,000 year
On-siteIrvine, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead electrical integration activities as the primary point of contact for ruggedized electronics design, scaling legacy concepts to full-rate production. Collaborate with mechanical engineers to optimize high power components and trade-off selections against size, weight, power, and EMC requirements. Complete full-cycle PCB design from schematic to layout, including bring-up, test, debug, and validation while ensuring manufacturability. Provide hands-on support for prototype and production-level products, troubleshooting root causes to improve design reliability. Partner with architecture, product, and test teams to drive system requirements and achieve mission-critical reliability goals for autonomous awareness systems.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 8+ years of professional experience
- Self starter with the ability to design digital & analog electronics from concept and functional prototype, to production ready product
- Ability to troubleshoot existing hardware to find root cause of issues and implement improvements to improve the design
- Develop clear documentation to capture design requirements, specifications, test coverage, and test reports
- Complete full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, validation, characterization, and integration with the system
- Work closely with other mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional products
- Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware
- Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs and products
- Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests
- Familiarity with switch mode power supply design and testing
- Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc
- Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies
- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
- Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)
- Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation design tools
- Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Matlab, etc)
- Ability to root cause Full stack HLOS application to hardware component level issues
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