Aerospace Hardware Engineer: Concept to Vehicle Integration

Powerus; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerus is hiring a Hardware Engineer to develop electronic hardware for unmanned platforms, from concept through production. You will design circuits, bring boards up, and support manufacturing transitions on a broad scope including power, avionics, sensing, and interconnect.

The role is hands-on with real aircraft, requiring on-site work in Charlotte, NC, with a focus on hardware development and cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing or bringing up electronic hardware that became a physical product.
• Comfort with lab instrumentation and structured debugging of hardware you did not design.

Responsibilities

• Develop electronic hardware from requirements through schematic, layout support, and release.
• Bring up new boards, characterize behavior, and debug across analog, digital, and power domains.
• Integrate hardware into the vehicle and resolve system-level problems.
• Define and verify interfaces between boards, harnesses, sensors, and subsystems.
• Run design reviews and drive findings to closure with hardware, mechanical, and software engineers.
• Select components against electrical requirements, NDAA and Blue UAS sourcing constraints.
• Build test setups and write procedures for measurable, repeatable performance.
• Support environmental, vibration, and EMC testing and address issues surfaced.
• Produce and maintain schematics, drawings, BOMs, and revision-controlled docs.
• Partner with manufacturing on buildability, first article, yield, and process feedback.

Skills

Circuit design

Schematic capture

PCB bring-up

Hardware testing

System integration

Lab instrumentation

Debugging

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence Allegro

KiCad

Job description

Powerus is hiring a Hardware Engineer to develop electronic hardware for unmanned platforms, from concept through production. You will design circuits, bring boards up, and support manufacturing transitions on a broad scope including power, avionics, sensing, and interconnect.

The role is hands-on with real aircraft, requiring on-site work in Charlotte, NC, with a focus on hardware development and cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams.