Avionics Engineer

Socket.dev; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayman Aerospace seeks an experienced Avionics Engineer to join our team designing, building and testing autonomous aircraft. You will contribute to PCBAs, harnesses, firmware, and system integration for the Razor aircraft, including hands-on fabrication support and test activities.

The role requires a strong engineering foundation, 2+ years of experience, excellent communication, and the ability to work across a broad set of activities in a growth-stage startup environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical, Computer, Robotics, Aerospace, or similar with 2+ years of experience.
• Strong fundamentals in electronics, firmware, and system design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and documentation skills.
• Willing to own tasks and drive them to completion in a fast-paced startup setting.

Responsibilities

• Develop flight‑critical PCBAs and harnesses, including design, derating analyses, and power budgets.
• Create fabrication and assembly drawings for PCBAs and harnesses.
• Write test procedures for design validation, bring-up, and acceptance testing.
• Spin-up firmware or ICDs for designed PCBAs; participate in flight tests and end-to-end integration.
• Support test of COTS hardware (motors, engines, thermal testing) and flight test campaigns.

Skills

Altium Designer

Circuit simulation

Embedded C

Python

Soldering/assembly

Firmware development

Hardware testing

RF knowledge

EMI/EMC testing

Documentation

HDL/FPGA (Verilog/VHDL)

Harness design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Masters degree (beneficial)

Tools

RapidHarness

Zuken

Job description

About Mayman Aerospace

Mayman Aerospace created the world's only successful turbine powered Jetpack. We are a venture backed company with DoD contracts working to develop our Air Utility Vehicle. It will be the smallest & fastest, heavy-lift micro-turbine powered VTOL aircraft ever designed. We are currently developing our fifth full scale flying prototype called the P100.

At our company, we foster a relaxed and informal atmosphere with a fast-paced prototype culture. We strongly believe in nurturing individuality and promoting innovation. To thrive here, a successful candidate should be highly motivated, enterprising, and genuinely enthusiastic. Our collaborative environment values teamwork over ego, emphasizing the importance of being proactive and embracing speed and intellectual risks. Working well under pressure, tackling challenges, and assuming responsibility are essential traits. While days can be long, we prioritize the excitement and fulfillment that come with the work rather than counting hours.

Mayman Aerospace is looking for an experienced Avionics Engineer to join our existing engineering team designing, building and flight testing our awesome autonomous aircraft.

What You'll Do:

• Join our engineering team to develop the Razor aircraft

• Design flight critical PCBAs, harnessing, firmware, etc.

• Help with the aircraft assembly and integration effort (e.g. derating analyses, power budgets, work instructions, etc.)

• Develop drawings for fabrication & assembly of PCBAs + Harnesses

• Write test procedures for design validation, bring-up, and acceptance testing

• Spin-up firmware or detailed ICDs for PCBAs you design.

• Get hands‑on with fabrication and assembly of the Razor aircraft

• Support test of COTS hardware (motor, engine, thermal testing etc.)
• Join the flight-test team (travel to test range and support the end-to-end test effort)

Who You Are:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Electrical, Computer, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or similar technical degree with 2+ years of experience
• Strong engineering fundamentals and critical thinking
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills for technical documentation, physical documentation and hardware
• Willingness to work collaboratively across a broad range of activities to support team goals – growth‑stage startups require a wide range of skills
• Ability to take ownership of tasks, and drive them to completion
• Adept at prioritizing tasks and executing multiple assignments concurrently in a rapidly changing environment

Skills We Are Looking For

• Experience with EDA software (e.g. Altium Designer, Allegro, or equivalent)

• Experience with circuit simulation & analysis (hand calculations and/or Spice)

• Experience building electrical assemblies (soldering PCB components, splicing/crimping/terminating harnesses, epoxying/coating PCBAs, etc)

• Experience writing firmware for flight/dev hardware (e.g. Embedded C, Python, etc)

• Experience with hardware test (component, assembly, or system) - including test plans, procedures, and data review

• US citizen or resident status as this position will require access to export controlled data (security clearance is not required)

Skills We Would Love

• Masters degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering or related field

• Knowledge of harness design tools (e.g. RapidHarness, Zuken, or equivalent)

• Knowledge of HDL for FPGAs (e.g. Verilog, VHDL, or equivalent)

• Software scripting experience in Python or equivalent

• Experience with qualification testing of Avionics hardware in flight critical systems
• Experience with RF systems
• Experience with EMI/EMC compliance design and testing

Mayman Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Mayman Aerospace is governed on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence, and will not be influenced in any manner by race, religion, gender, national origin, color, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.