Aerospace Power Electronics Engineer — Flight Hardware

amca llc; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Amca in El Segundo seeks an electrical designer to take concepts through flight-qualified hardware. You will expand the catalog by designing aerospace hardware and collaborating with build and test engineers to bring products to life.

This role emphasizes hands-on development, from schematics and layout to bench testing and qualification plans, with a focus on reliability and cost. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to a growing, defense-related portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience applying first-principles to power, filtering, and logic.
• Experience in electrical schematic layout and simulation to meet requirements.
• Hands-on debugging with oscilloscope and meters.
• Curious, fast learner, capable across parts and processes.
• Ability to challenge and simplify requirements through engineering principles.
• Hands-on and practical—comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own design and prototyping of new electrical hardware.
• Work with customers to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed.
• Take full ownership of electrical design for flight hardware, including electrical schematic creation, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout.
• Own the prototype and bring-up of early revision hardware and rapidly iterate to finalize designs, including bench testing and basic functional and development tests.
• Work with test engineering to define and execute qualification plans including functional and environmental testing.
• Work with build engineers to ensure new designs are manufacturable at supply chain or production facilities and DFM feedback is implemented.
• Manage drawing revisions, BOM structure, and part configuration in accordance with aerospace standards and internal design controls.
• Continue to iterate on Amca designs to ensure they are fully optimized for reliability and cost.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic layout

Hardware prototyping

Component selection

DFM & manufacturing

Hands-on debugging

First-principles thinking

Tools

Oscilloscope

Multimeter

Logic analyzer

PCB layout tools

Job description

Amca in El Segundo seeks an electrical designer to take concepts through flight-qualified hardware. You will expand the catalog by designing aerospace hardware and collaborating with build and test engineers to bring products to life.

This role emphasizes hands-on development, from schematics and layout to bench testing and qualification plans, with a focus on reliability and cost. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to a growing, defense-related portfolio.