Director of Electrical Engineering

Chaos Industries; El Segundo (CA); Presencial; USD 250.000 - 400.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Annual bonuses

Free daily lunch

Descripción de la vacante

Chaos Industries seeks a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, set standards, and ensure on-time, technically rigorous hardware across programs.

The role requires deep technical breadth, hands-on leadership, and experience bringing complex electronics from architecture through qualification,

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with extensive experience.
• Deep domain expertise across power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics.
• Experience leading high-reliability aerospace hardware programs.

Responsabilidades

• Build and lead an electrical engineering organization across multiple disciplines.
• Define hiring plans, standards, and design review practices.
• Lead architecture trades, ensure schedule and qualification delivery.

Conocimientos

Power electronics

Analog design

Mixed-signal

Digital electronics

FPGA

Leadership

System architecture

Team building

Educación

BSEE or equivalent

Advanced degree in EE

Herramientas

HyperLynx

Sigrity

ADS

Ansys SIwave

Descripción del empleo

• CHAOS is seeking a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems


• You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification, production, field deployment, and sustainment


• The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development across these disciplines


• You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, establish engineering standards and operating practices, allocate resources across programs, and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule


• You will lead from the front, personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth


• Build, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers


• Define the organization’s hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices


• Plan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs


• Lead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements


• Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC


• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware, FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test


• Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to rate production, failure investigation, and field support


• Serve as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners


• Remain hands‑on and personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities as needed

Benefits

• Generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses


• Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO (for exempt employees), casual dress code


• Life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more


• Medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance


• Experience leading hardware from architecture and detailed design through bring-up, integration, qualification, production, and failure investigation


• Background developing electronics for aerospace, defense, radar, electronic warfare, missile, space, or similarly demanding applications


• Deep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline, with sufficient breadth to lead high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal, and power electronics development


• Strong knowledge of PCB design, component selection, signal and power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, derating, and design for manufacturability


• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant engineering experience


• Experience developing complex electronic systems incorporating technologies such as FPGAs, processors, memory, data converters, high-speed interfaces, power conversion, and analog signal chains


• Experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for complex, high-reliability electronics


• Familiarity with applicable aerospace standards, including MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1275, and RTCA/DO-160


• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline


• Experience building or rapidly scaling an electrical engineering team


• Experience with signal-integrity or power-integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent


• Experience developing avionics or RF sensor electronics


• Experience with interfaces such as DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, and LVDS in high-reliability systems


• Experience establishing reusable architectures, design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or technical review processes


• Experience managing external design partners, PCB fabrication and assembly suppliers, or other critical electronics suppliers