Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer — Flight-Ready Power

DeltaQuad; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coaching and professional growth

27 vacation days (based on full-time)

38-hour workweek with flexible hours

Travel reimbursement €0.25/km or full

Excellent pension scheme

Innovative high-tech environment

Open, informal company culture

Lunch provided and team activities

Job summary

DeltaQuad seeks a Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer to own the electrical and avionics integrity of our UAV platforms. You will define robust power architectures, interfaces and embedded hardware that stay safe during disturbances and faults.

You’ll drive system architecture, schematic and PCB design, hardware bring-up, fault analysis and flight validation, collaborating across disciplines to deliver mission-ready systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in embedded electronics, avionics, UAVs, robotics, aerospace or other mission‑critical systems.
• Proven experience taking electrical hardware from architecture or field failure through design, bring‑up, validation and release.
• Strong knowledge of electrical architecture, DC power systems, grounding, protection, monitoring and failure containment.

Responsibilities

• Define electrical architectures, power trees, load budgets, grounding concepts and critical-load priorities.
• Design power distribution, monitoring and protection against brownout, overvoltage, reverse polarity, inrush, short circuits and power interruptions.
• Design schematics and multilayer PCBs for power, avionics, sensor, timing and mission-system applications.
• Integrate batteries, BMS systems, flight controllers, sensors, servos, radios, payloads and embedded computers.
• Develop harnesses, connector definitions, pinouts, shielding details and interface-control documentation.
• Integrate systems through CAN, DroneCAN/UAVCAN, UART, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, USB, discrete I/O and PPS/timing interfaces.
• Improve reliability through EMI/EMC mitigation, fault containment, derating, power-integrity analysis and fault-injection testing.
• Perform hardware bring-up, structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of electrical and system-level faults.
• Define and execute laboratory, environmental, vibration, thermal, HIL and flight-validation testing.
• Maintain schematics, PCB files, BOMs, hardware revisions, test procedures and release documentation.
• Develop test fixtures, manufacturing tests and integration standards, and support handover to Engineering and Production.

Skills

Hands-on

Analytical

Root-cause analysis

Validation

Cross-disciplinary

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

DeltaQuad seeks a Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer to own the electrical and avionics integrity of our UAV platforms. You will define robust power architectures, interfaces and embedded hardware that stay safe during disturbances and faults.

You’ll drive system architecture, schematic and PCB design, hardware bring-up, fault analysis and flight validation, collaborating across disciplines to deliver mission-ready systems.