Senior Electrical Engineer, Circuit Design
$146,000–$194,000 year
On-siteCosta Mesa, California, United States
Job Summary
Design PCBAs end-to-end, from requirements capture through fabrication, assembly, and qualification. Troubleshoot boards at the bench and in integrated vehicle configurations to isolate failures across electrical, firmware, and mechanical boundaries. Serve as the technical bridge between software, electrical, and mechanical disciplines, translating subsystem needs into electronics requirements. Design and integrate electro-mechanical subsystems including motor drives, sensors, actuators, and power distribution for subsea operation. Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis for board architecture, component selection, and thermal/power budgets. Lead design reviews, define hardware test plans, and transition designs from prototype into production. Support vehicle integration, at-sea test events, and customer demonstrations as needed. Travel to test sites, fabrication vendors, and integration facilities as required.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of electrical / PCBA design experience in a professional setting
- Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad, or equivalent) — schematic capture through layout
- Experience taking PCBAs from concept through bringup, including bare-metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, or similar)
- Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion, and system integration
- Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and PCB layouts
- Experience debugging at both schematic and board level using oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and multimeters
- Demonstrated leadership on a complex technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to drive work independently across disciplinary boundaries
- High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles
- BS in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- MS in an engineering field
- Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
- Experience designing electronics for rugged, marine, or pressure-sealed environments
- Experience in FPGA design and development
- MCAD experience (NX) and comfort collaborating on enclosure, connector, and harness design
- Hands-on prototyping (soldering, rework, board assembly, harnessing)
- Experience bringing up device trees on embedded Linux systems with a variety of connected sensors
- Experience characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level
- Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN/CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485)
- Experience with motor and servo drive design (BLDC / brushed motor controllers, servo control systems)
- Familiarity with wireless and subsea communication protocols (acoustic modems, RF, Ethernet)
- Experience bridging firmware and electrical work-streams — writing or reviewing low-level drivers, bringup scripts, or HIL test infrastructure
- Experience developing complex electronics hardware products (UUVs, UAVs, robotics, propulsion systems, or other complex mechatronic platforms)
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