Avionics Engineer: Flight Electronics (Hands-on, Equity)

Approach Venture LLC; El Segundo (CA); Presencial; USD 100 000 - 135 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity

Resumo da oferta

Approach Venture LLC in El Segundo, CA, is seeking an Avionics Engineer to own the electronics across the interceptor, from board-level design to flight qualification. This hands-on role builds and tests hardware, from schematics to flight-ready boards, collaborating closely with founders and cross-functional teams.

You will design PCBs, power systems, sensor interfaces, and harnesses, ensuring rugged performance for high-G launch and EMI/EMC compliance, with equity in a seed-stage defense-tech

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years designing and fielding electronics hardware, including at least one system taken through test (student rocketry and similar teams count).
• Strong PCB design experience in Altium, KiCad, or similar, including mixed-signal and power electronics.
• Strong fundamentals in circuit analysis, signal integrity, noise, grounding, and EMI/EMC.
• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, and power systems.
• Hands-on soldering, rework, bring-up, and debugging skills.
• Comfortable with oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analyzers, and other lab equipment.
• U.S. Person status required (ITAR) and ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Define the avionics architecture across the flight computer, power distribution, and data buses.
• Design, simulate, and lay out PCBs for computing, sensing, actuation, and power.
• Own schematic capture, layout, component selection, DFM, and board vendor coordination.
• Develop power systems including DC-DC conversion, batteries, protection circuitry, and transient management.
• Integrate the seeker, IMUs, GNSS receivers, and electromechanical actuators.
• Design signal conditioning and low-latency sensor and actuator interfaces for flight software and the autopilot.
• Design wiring harnesses and the launcher electrical interface with the mechanical team.
• Design electronics to survive high-G launch, vibration, shock, and thermal extremes.
• Lead electrical qualification testing including EMI/EMC, vibration, thermal, and high-G.
• Partner with embedded engineers on processor selection, drivers, and the hardware-firmware interface.
• Bring up and debug hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DAQ systems.
• Support vehicle integration, ground test, and flight test, and write requirements, test plans, and documentation.

Conhecimentos

PCB design

Circuit analysis

EMI/EMC

Soldering & debugging

System integration

Power electronics

Lab equipment handling

US person status

Formação académica

Bachelor's in electrical engineering

Ferramentas

Altium Designer

KiCad

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Approach Venture LLC in El Segundo, CA, is seeking an Avionics Engineer to own the electronics across the interceptor, from board-level design to flight qualification. This hands-on role builds and tests hardware, from schematics to flight-ready boards, collaborating closely with founders and cross-functional teams.

You will design PCBs, power systems, sensor interfaces, and harnesses, ensuring rugged performance for high-G launch and EMI/EMC compliance, with equity in a seed-stage defense-tech