Electrical Engineer, Avionics & Power for Aircraft Systems

Powerus; Rock Hill (SC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerus is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, build, debug, and test electrical systems on unmanned platforms, including power distribution, avionics, sensors, and wiring. The role spans from breadboard to first article through production at the Rock Hill facility.

Ideal candidates have a BS in EE (or equivalent), hands-on lab experience, and the ability to work across multiple disciplines to trace and fix faults to root cause, with familiarity in Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on lab experience with soldering, debugging, and instrumentation.
• Experience across design, build and test of electrical systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and modify circuits for power, sensing, control, and interfaces.
• Capture schematics and support board layout, components and reviews.
• Bench and aircraft bring-up, debugging, and validation of hardware.
• Specify wiring, harnessing, connectors, and grounding requirements.
• Integrate avionics, propulsion, payload and ground support hardware.
• Write and run test procedures; translate results into design changes.
• Root-cause failures with lab instruments and iterative fixes.
• Select components per electrical specs, NDAA/Blue UAS rules.
• Maintain drawings, interface definitions, BOMs and docs.

Skills

Analog and digital circuits

Schematics and datasheets

Lab testing and debugging

Hardware integration

Education

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence Allegro

KiCad

Job description

Powerus is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, build, debug, and test electrical systems on unmanned platforms, including power distribution, avionics, sensors, and wiring. The role spans from breadboard to first article through production at the Rock Hill facility.

Ideal candidates have a BS in EE (or equivalent), hands-on lab experience, and the ability to work across multiple disciplines to trace and fix faults to root cause, with familiarity in Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad.