Aerospace Embedded Board Designer (UAV/Avionics)

GuideTech LLC; Tucson (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

GuideTech LLC in Tucson, AZ, onsite with hybrid flexibility, designs embedded hardware for advanced aerospace systems. You will lead board designs from concept through production, collaborating with hardware, FPGA, and software teams to deliver reliable, testable solutions.

We seek experts in high-speed, mixed-signal hardware, DFM/DFT, and FPGA SoC integration (Zynq, Vivado) with a focus on manufacturability and validation for UAV/aerospace platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and releasing complex multilayer PCBAs/CCAs into volume production.
• Strong experience with high-speed, mixed-signal, and embedded hardware systems.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), manufacturing processes, and production test strategies.
• Experience with FPGA SoCs (such as Zynq), Vivado, hardware integration, simulation, and on-chip debugging.
• UAV, robotics, aerospace, or avionics experience.
• Familiarity with IPC or avionics standards.

Responsibilities

• Hardware Design: design and develop multilayer PCBAs/CCAs for UAV/aerospace platforms.
• Create schematics, define constraints, support PCB layout, and prepare designs for release.
• Design embedded hardware systems focused on performance, reliability, manufacturability, and testability.
• Collaborate with FPGA, hardware, and embedded software engineers for real-time systems.
• Lead hardware development from concept to production and manage transitions to production.

Skills

PCB design

FPGA integration

High-speed hardware

HIL/testing

VHDL

Aerospace/avionics

Tools

Vivado

Zynq

Job description

GuideTech LLC in Tucson, AZ, onsite with hybrid flexibility, designs embedded hardware for advanced aerospace systems. You will lead board designs from concept through production, collaborating with hardware, FPGA, and software teams to deliver reliable, testable solutions.

We seek experts in high-speed, mixed-signal hardware, DFM/DFT, and FPGA SoC integration (Zynq, Vivado) with a focus on manufacturability and validation for UAV/aerospace platforms.