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Senior Electrical Design Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
5+ years
Compensation
r Electrical Design Engineer: $135,000 - $176,400 Staff Electrical Design Engin
Posted
2026-02-18T19:59:47-05:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing

Requirements

5+ years of experience with avionics design, analysis, and/or unit level testing.

Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.

Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.

Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software.

Understand electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.

Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.

Compensation & Benefits

Senior Electrical Design Engineer: $135,000 - $176,400

Staff Electrical Design Engineer: $159,100 - $205,800

Pay Range: California

$135,000

$205,800 USD

Responsibilities

Act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.

Perform component selection, design analysis, schematic capture, circuit board design, prototyping, board bring up, debugging, circuit validation, and design documentation for electrical designs.

Analyze and troubleshoot electronic assemblies, define new processes, design circuits/fixtures/tools, and identify opportunities for improvement in both products and processes.

Support mission operations by providing real-time input during flight, completing data reviews, monitoring hardware performance, and working with partners to simplify operation of our avionics systems.

Work with experts from other teams and departments to ensure that fielded systems perform their function while being efficient, manufacturable, and reliable.

Define acceptance testing and qualification requirements of new and existing hardware, perform development and qualification testing to prove out design, and formally document test results.